Episode Highlights With Kristina

• How she was born in a country that doesn’t exist anymore and was selected for the Olympic reserves multiple times
• Why too much positivity can actually be detrimental to us and how to safeguard against this
• Life is like a dance and there aren’t necessarily simple answers or linear paths
• How she defines authenticity and what happens when we aren’t authentic to ourselves
• The dark side of personal growth and how the extremes can feed our insecurities
• How to reframe and instead of thinking of slaying the dragons think of taming them and learning to ride them
• Vulnerability has two components: the courage of acting despite the fear and the uncertainty of not knowing what will result
• How people can misuse the practice of meditation or gratitude when they start to happen on autopilot
• What emotional analgesia is and why she believes it is a big problem for us
• You can’t numb emotions selectively… if you numb one, you numb the ability to feel all of them
• Remembering that we are allowed to feel all of our emotions and not judge them and still choose to act from our values and not our emotions
• We are not our emotions but why they are valuable feedback
• Self love is actually about the relationship with yourself
• The difference between self love and self care and why this difference is important
• Self care is skin deep and self love has more depth
• Is imposter syndrome actually a sign that you’ve done something good?
• An important question: Can you still love yourself if you fail?
• When we use love as currency and how to avoid this
• Try an experiment of replacing judgement with curiosity in your relationship with yourself

Resources We Mention

• Becoming Flawesome: The Key to Living an Imperfectly Authentic Life by Kristina Mand-Lakhiani
• Mindvalley
• The Best of Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations (Lewis Carroll Classics) by Lewis Carroll