If you've done the work—therapy, healing, insight—and still feel stuck in the same emotional patterns, this episode is for you. I'm unpacking the biggest misunderstanding in personal growth: that life improves when you fix yourself, rather than when you see clearly what's been shaping your experience of it.

We'll explore how the Inner Critic organizes your reality, why your nervous system reacts as if the past is still happening, and how the belief "something is wrong with me" quietly drives stress, control, and bracing.

✨ Tune in to learn how to shift the lens you're living through, loosen the grip of fear-based identity, and meet life from your Authentic Self—where nothing needs to be fixed for things to finally feel different.

Your weekly reflection questions:

• Where in my life am I still trying to fix circumstances, rather than noticing the lens through which I'm experiencing them?

• When something feels stressful or triggering, what interpretation is my Inner Critic offering—and how does my body respond to believing it?

• What might become possible if I stopped organizing my life around protection and allowed my Authentic Self to respond instead?

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