SSS S3 Ep22 You Don’t Need to Be So Hard on Yourself | Softening Toward Self

Let’s just say this out loud you didn’t wake up one day deciding to be hard on yourself.You learned it.

Somewhere along the way, being gentle felt unsafe…and being tough felt responsible.

In this Week 1 episode of Soulful Saturdays with Saylor, we’re talking about the patterns behind self-criticism and why so many women believe they have to stay hard on themselves in order to succeed, survive, or stay in control.

This episode explores:

✨ Why self-criticism is often a learned survival strategy

✨ How being hard on yourself became confused with responsibility

✨ The emotional cost of constant inner pressure

✨ What changes when you soften toward yourself instead of pushing

✨ How gentleness creates safety — and safety creates clarity

If you’ve ever felt exhausted by your own inner voice…

If rest feels uncomfortable or undeserved…

If softness feels risky even though you crave it…

This conversation is for you. Softening toward yourself doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It means changing the way you meet yourself while you grow.

You don’t need to be harder. You need to feel safe.

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