Hi, I'm Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about progress made practical.

In 2022, something really weird happened to me.

I noticed I had a different face.

Like everyone else in the world,

the pandemic brought on a few years of very intense stress for our

family for us that included a rushed move out of our home in California to living in my

parents basement while homeschooling our kids who were really

struggling and still trying to work and renovate a house that was completely

depleting our bank accounts.

But once that was all beginning to resolve,

we finally moved into our home, our kids were back in school,

and I could finally come up for air.

It was like, one day I looked in the mirror and saw a completely new face, one that I nicknamed my post-pandemic face because it was sagging and in ways it hadn't before as if the

stress of the last few years had left their mark on me. While this was surprising, what surprised me the most was how suddenly and enduringly's insecure

I felt.

And this after years of preaching, the importance of and how to gain a strong sense of

self outside of outcomes including appearance. I felt insecure, but I also felt shame over that insecurity. After all I knew better.

We all face circumstances in our lives that create a crisis of confidence, whether you're in a post-partum season or in a depression, or you're aging or facing divorce.

There are times of insecurity that push us to take a real hard look at who we really are

and how to come back home to that sense of self.

Today my guest, Dina Skippa,

will help you know how to better move through

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