On today's podcast episode Tiera discusses how Comparison is crazy-making. It stamps on potential and truth and all the good things you might already have going for you if you weren’t so busy shadow-boxing with the people who you think have it better. Rather than comparing, imagine. Imagine yourself feeling the way you want to feel — successful, brilliant, artistically free, earthy, healthy, connected. That’s it. You’re not making yourself less than or more than anyone else — you’re simply giving yourself permission to want what you want.
In our day and age, comparison is increasingly heightened due to our lives being displayed on a moment by moment basis through social media. There was a time when your ability to deal with comparison was controlled by the places you went and people you saw in real life, yet now at your fingertips you can access millions of people living so-called “better” lives than you. Plenty of studies have connected the dot of mental health to our current obsession with likes and affirmation from a screen. It only takes a couple of seconds scrolling to feel an immediate dissatisfaction with who you are, how you look, and where you find yourself in life.