361: Take Off Your Armor, Put On Your Cape

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 7 a.m.

Are you ready for some truth-telling???\nIt\u2019s time to take off your armor.\nYou deserve to embrace and appreciate all parts of yourself and your story, not just the pretty parts.\nYou deserve to reframe and reset your mindset around the struggles in your life, not settle for constant self-doubt and negative self-talk.\nYou deserve to get curious about who you are and where you want to go in life, not stay the course that is no longer lighting you up.\nYou deserve to grow and expand and become a more positive, powerful, purposeful version of yourself, not shrink in frustration and worry that you'll never get all the things you want.\nNot only do you deserve all this - you are TRULY CAPABLE of all this.\nYou are capable of embracing all of you and all of your story.\nYou are capable of reframing and resetting your mindset so you can shut down that negative self-talk.\nYou are capable of getting curious about where you want to go in the next 3, 6, 12 months and actually starting to take steps to get yourself there.\nYou are capable of growing and expanding into a more positive, powerful and purposeful version of yourself starting right now.\nIf you're struggling with your identity - who you are, where you've come from, where you want to go - you are not alone. And it's time to take off your armor. The armor that you think is protecting you is actually holding you back from taking action, building momentum, and realizing what you're truly capable of.\nHere\u2019s what your armor might look like:\n\nkeeping people at arm\u2019s length\n\nLaughing when you are hurting instead of speaking up for yourself\n\nKeeping secrets and holding shame around your stories\n\nPlaying small out of fear of failure or fear of looking silly\n\nMaking others look small in order to feel better about yourself (gossiping about other women, telling other women\u2019s stories, passing judgment on other women\u2019s bodies, choices, success stories)\n\nStaying comfortable and stagnant instead of taking a chance to step into bigger roles/opportunities\n\nTune into learn 7 steps to take off your armor and put on your cape.\nThank you to our sponsors:\n\n\ncare of: For 25% off your first month of personalized care/of vitamins, visit Take CareOf and enter the code SHAMELESS at checkout\n\n\nLovevery: Save $15 off your Play Kit subscription at Loveveryand use the code SHAMELESS at checkout. Offer good until 10/31.\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices