05: Being an Asshole to yourself does NOT work

The Confidence Project Podcast · Sep 26, 2016 · 44m

I used to believe two things:

1) The meaner I was to myself, the more I would be motivated to workout more and eat less to have a "better" body.

2) I thought the "better" my body looked, the more I would be able to love and accept myself.

Both of these thoughts were WRONG.

This episode is for women who also believe those things to be true.

Cynthia helps us get down to the psychology behind negative self-talk- why it doesn't motivate us, and what we can do about. We also talk about WHY we all seem to think that happiness and radical self-acceptance is NOT on the other end of a smaller number…