Why You Need to Stop Seeking External Validation

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to this episode of Embrace Your Real.

In today's episode, we'll explore the topic of confidence-boosting compliments and validation. Although compliments are commonly perceived as a means to elevate one's self-assurance, seeking external validation for self-worth can prove to be counterproductive in the long term.

Our pursuit of approval from others can hinder the development of genuine confidence, which is derived from an internal source. While receiving compliments can be pleasant, relying on them solely to feel good about ourselves is ultimately ineffective.

Join us in this episode as we delve deeper into the intricacies of the relationship between compliments and confidence, and why true confidence comes from within.

What I discuss:

Respect yourself.
Celebrate your successes.
Embrace your imperfections.
Practice self-compassion: Be kind and gentle with yourself.
Take risks: Push yourself out of your comfort zone and try new things.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick.
0:07.5	You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Rail with me, Julie Labbetter. I'm about to give you a quick
0:13.8	tip for building your confidence, honoring your body and unconditionally loving
0:17.8	your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace a reel. let's get it, let's go.
0:23.3	Hello and welcome'll come back to you another bonus episode.
0:33.7	Compliments are often thought of as a way
0:35.8	to kind of boost self-confidence.
0:37.5	Like we seek validation from others,
0:39.2	hoping that their kind words will help us make us
0:41.8	like feel better about ourselves.
0:43.1	Whether we like that or not, it's just a human thing that we do.
0:46.8	And while receiving compliments can be nice seeking them out
0:49.7	as a way to build confidence is ultimately ineffective.
0:52.5	True confidence truly comes from within,
0:55.3	it comes from the source, in my opinion,
0:57.9	I'm a believer in Jesus Christ,
0:59.5	I believe our confidence is found in God.
1:01.6	And truly like seeking external validation can
1:04.3	actually be harmful to our self-esteem in the long run and so that's why in today's
1:08.4	episode I want to discuss that but before we dive in I want to share this
1:11.8	review it comes from
1:12.7	Nicky Vipe she gave a five-star view and said wow only a weekend and I'm hooked I
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