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You're one-stop-shop for motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

I'm your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach and founder of the College

of Competence and I teach women how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of their shadows of

self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to train your thoughts. Let's get started.

Hey friend, it's Trish Blackwell, your confidence coach and you're listening to the

Confidence Podcast episode number 410. Today we're diving deep and having a

great heart to heart about how to stop beating yourself up.

That's right, this episode is for my high achievers, my overachievers, my self-critical

folk, my perfectionists who are in recovery my heart-to-heart people.

Y'all are my people this is something I've struggled with for so much of my life and I found a lot of freedom in it through coaching

and research and a lot of the coaching I do with others and I cannot wait to share with you today.

So today we're going to be pulling back the curtain of our hearts and having a conversation

about the pressure, the undue, unrealistic pressure, unnecessary pressure that you put on yourself.

But before I even tell you what I'm going to cover specifically,

I've got to tell you, when you put this amount of pressure on yourself,

it robs you of peace.

That pressure, we do it, and we'll go into some of the reasons why this cycle happens, but when we do it, we choke out our confidence. We stifle it. We, because really confidence is based in a state of hearts. It's a heart that's

peaceful. It's a heart that's present and when you're peaceful and present you have

power and you can be yourself and that confidence blossoms.

But when we put pressure on ourselves, we're pressing in on who we are,

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