I'm Speaking...with Elizabeth West

Ep 119 Actually…Welcome to the Season of Self Discovery! 🧐

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Hi lovelies! Thanks for listening! Actually…Welcome to the Season of Self Discovery! 💡This title was my original podcast episode title and Anyhoo, long story short here we are back at the original title. 🤓 What I didn’t know *was hurting me, and due to my unawareness, I didn’t know that I needed to not be so dang hard on myself all of the time 😖 as well as self-loathing (the exact opposite of self-love) that I’d been doing all of my life. 😞 I even had some of my supervisors at work tell me that I was being too hard on myself! 😳 And the things I would say to myself, never in a million years would I ever dream of saying it to a friend or a loved one. 😔 Little did I know that I needed to recharge, fill my cup, 🥛and take better self-care (and even more so than the normal person) since I had discovered that I’m an introvert AND an HSP (short for highly sensitive person). I also discovered at this time that those two traits tied in together. I thought they were completely separate! Wha?!? 😲😲😲 Shut the front door! 🚪By me rarely to never recharging and always putting myself last, it led me to poor mental health and several bouts with depression. 😞 If I didn’t love myself and put myself first how could I expect others to? I wanna help others who are living a life of never putting themselves first and who believe the lie that self-care is being selfish. (It is quite the opposite in fact!) And those that do have an inkling that they’re an introvert or more introverted (because we’re all extroverted AND introverted), that there’s nothing wrong with needing alone time, needing time to recharge and that we don’t need to explain ourselves or apologize for it. And that this is also a part of self-love. 🥰