Have you ever received a compliment or acknowledged a success, only to immediately deflect or downplay it? Or perhaps you’ve accomplished something meaningful but instead of feeling proud, you start to focus on what could have been better? This tendency to minimize our strengths and dismiss our progress can be so automatic that we don’t even realize we’re doing it.

 

In this episode, I explore why we minimize ourselves and how to relate to this habit differently. What I once saw as just a bad mental habit to fix, I now understand as a protective strategy—a part of us trying to keep us safe from vulnerability, judgment, or failure. Through the lens of Internal Family Systems, embodiment, and nervous system regulation, I’ll show you how this tendency serves a purpose and how we can start to shift it.

 

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