EP206 Unlocking Your Potential: Defeating Self-Sabotage and Embracing Your Life
Episode description
In this episode we explore the topic of self-sabotage and its connection to anxiety. We delve into the various patterns and behaviors that constitute self-sabotage, such as procrastination, negative self-talk, self-isolation, comfort zone preservation, self-handicapping, self-sabotaging relationships, substance abuse, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and avoidance. We emphasize the importance of recognizing these patterns as the first step towards breaking free from self-sabotage and fostering positive change.
We then look at the childhood origins that can contribute to self-sabotage in adulthood. Critical parenting, trauma and neglect, lack of emotional validation, high expectations and pressure, inconsistent or unpredictable parenting, enmeshment or overprotection, and learned helplessness are all factors that can shape self-sabotaging behaviors. While childhood experiences can influence self-sabotage, it is not a predetermined outcome, and with self-awareness, coaching, support, and healing, you can overcome these patterns!
Key Elements:
· Look at how self-sabotage reinforces anxiety in several ways and perpetuates the avoidance of discomfort.
· Process how each means of sabotage serves a protective purpose – then creates it’s own issues!
· Discuss practical advice for starting the process of overcoming self-sabotage.
Don’t shame yourself more by
being mad at your self-sabotage.
Realize it was there to protect you…
and now you’re brave enough
to stop doing it.
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