Dare To Love YOU: Building Self-Compassion

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What's up radiant icons and welcome back to Dare To

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Be Iconic, the podcast made for

icons daring to be themselves.

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I'm your host Amanda Paolicelli and

today's tea time session is all about a

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topic that I am really ,really, really

bad at, which is self compassion.

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Now, self compassion came up in last

week's episode, "Love Letters From

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Within: Boundaries, Trauma, and Healing.

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And specifically the point of why do we

not extend ourselves the same kindness

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that we extend to others, right?

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To our friends.

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And self compassion is all about

making a U turn and putting

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that care and understanding that

we put towards other people.

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To ourselves when we're going through

something traumatic, or hard, or

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challenging, or whatever it is.

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That is what self compassion is.

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So why can't we, and when I say

we, I definitely mean I, why can't

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we, I, not give ourselves the self

compassion or the love that we deserve?

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Well, we're talking all about that

today in our Tea Time Sesh, but before

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we do that, make sure to connect with

me on socials if you haven't done so

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already, and make sure to grab your

copy of Break Up With The Past, Fall

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In Love With The Future, your five step

guide in turning your pain into power.

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And all of that information can

be found in the show notes below.

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So are you ready, Radiant Icons?

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Because your tea time

sesh is starting now.

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All right, Radiant Icons.

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So, self compassion, man.

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I really suck at being kind to myself and

giving myself the love that I deserve.

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I know it's honestly very, very obvious

that I am The hardest on myself.

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Um, and you know, we all are, right?

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Like I mentioned last week and like I

mentioned in the intro to this episode

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today that we are our own worst critic

and we are the hardest on ourselves.

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And why can't we give ourselves

that understanding and kindness

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that we deserve when we go through

something traumatic or challenging?

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Why is it so hard for us to do that?

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So, I've had some time to reflect

from last week's episode, or

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honestly this whole month.

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Like, I'm not even gonna lie to you.

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October has been, it's always been, like,

October is always a hard month for me.

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I don't know if it's,

like, the October theory.

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I don't know if you guys heard

about that on TikTok, but,

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like, apparently it's a thing.

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Or, like, the October canon event

thing that's also on TikTok.

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I don't know, but, like, October

is always interesting for me.

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But, like, this October, Really

just hit me in the face Like some of

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the most exciting times of my life

career wise Has been happening and

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that's amazing and that's great.

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But then on the reverse side of it.

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It's also been some of the most

challenging weeks of my life i'm i'm

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dealing with a lot of trauma and a lot

of loss a lot of grief all within just a

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couple days of each other and it's it's a

lot right and That idea of balancing both

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is tricky, and that's something that I'm

still trying to come to terms with, right?

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But that's life, right?

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That's the beauty of it, right?

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There's good with the bad and vice versa.

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There's joy with pain, so on and so forth.

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Which got me thinking about the

self compassion topic, right?

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The last couple of weeks, I've

been unnecessarily I've been

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unnecessarily hard on myself.

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And I don't know why.

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And I don't know if it's because all

these different emotions that I'm

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trying to balance all at once has

something to do with it, but like It

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really made me like step back and like

reflect and be like, wow, like I really

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suck at being kind to myself I really

suck at giving myself the love that

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I deserve, which is so funny, right?

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It's like ironic because that's the

first thing that I tell you guys, right?

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I'm like give yourself the love you

deserve and I think at a certain point

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I was so So good at that like I was

like a student, you know what I mean?

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And then like this month

happened And I just said F it.

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I'm really trying not to curse

you guys, so we're gonna say F it.

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Um, so, I said F it, and I just

decided not to take any of my advice.

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Which always ends up biting me in the

booty, like, let's be so for real, right?

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But, it really got me thinking, the

last couple of days in particular,

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like, Oh, like, I had a wake up call

being like, I really, I really need to

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take control back of my life, and Not

that I was like going off the rails or

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anything but like I need to take control

back in my life of like Figuring out

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how to balance these emotions because

this is the reality of the situation.

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There will always be joy and pain Like

there will always be good and bad in

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life and you just need to figure out

how to move forward with it right

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and like Sometimes it's hard to just

get up and keep moving because all

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you want to do is just like give

up and just be like I'm done and

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like we just can't let that happen.

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So I decided to start with this self

compassion topic, I'm going to share

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five things that I wish I could

go back and tell my younger self,

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specifically 19 year old Amanda.

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I don't think it's any secret that the

year 19, that chapter of my life was

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a very traumatic, emotional, really,

really challenging chapter of my life.

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I've spoken about it on the podcast.

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I've written about it in the

blog, in the journal, like it's,

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It's not a secret, right, that

19 was a very hard year for me.

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And that's where this all stems

from, honestly, I really do think so.

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So, I'm gonna lead by example, and

do the really hard shit, which is,

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Talk about the five things I wish I

would have told 19 year old Amanda

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looking back now at 25 years old.

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So, let's do it, Radiant Icons.

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Let's get into the hard shit, shall we?

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That's what season two is all about.

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Okay.

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One, not everyone

deserves your forgiveness.

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Now, I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, when

I was 19, I had someone saying this to me.

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Your forgiveness is a privilege.

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You don't need to give it to anyone.

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This forgiveness thing

is really overrated.

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It is a privilege for me to forgive you.

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I don't have to forgive you and I

wish, I wish that someone told me

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this at 19 because it took me a while

to kind of stomach this idea of like

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Having to forgive someone because I

thought that was the right thing to do.

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I thought I had to just forgive everyone.

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Right?

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Because that's the good thing to do.

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That's what you should do in life.

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But like in all reality, you

don't owe anyone anything.

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You absolutely do not owe anyone

anything, especially your forgiveness.

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If someone does you wrong, you

do not have to forgive them.

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If they have hurt you so deeply.

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You don't have to forgive them.

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The only person that you do

need to forgive is yourself.

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And I wish I would've told myself that.

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That would've saved me a whole

bunch of feelings, and a lot of

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trauma and emotional distress.

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But like, honestly, if you're listening to

this right now and you're like, Oh, man.

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Should I forgive that person?

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You don't have to.

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If you don't want to, you don't have to.

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The only person you ever truly need

to forgive in your life is yourself.

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So if you're gonna forgive

anyone, forgive yourself.

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Number two.

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You are enough as is.

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You do not need to change

yourself for anyone or anything.

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I think at that age, right, you're,

you're in college, or at least I was in

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college, right, and you're at this really

weird, interesting time in your life.

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You're away from your parents for

the first time, you're living on your

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own, you're, Or you're living with

roommates, these people that you don't

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know that well, but you kind of know,

and it's like difficult and you're

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trying to like adult for the first

time and you're in these relationships

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and you're being exposed to all these

different environments and situations.

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And it's really easy to want to conform

and to basically be what everyone else is

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being, but going back to the core message

of dare to be iconic, dare to be yourself.

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And at 19, I wish there was something

like this, where there was someone

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telling me that was my age of like, no,

you don't need to be like everyone else.

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You truly are enough as is because

you are uniquely iconic and beautiful.

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And it's just so magical.

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It's like literally the most

powerful thing you can do in this

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world is dare to be yourself.

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And, I think at that age specifically,

it's really hard to like, digest that and

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understand it because there's all these

like, other factors that kind of play into

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your psyche and your self esteem, and it

like, kind of breaks you a bit, you know?

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Am I getting emotional again?

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Wow, season 2 is really, really out here.

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Making me reveal a lot

of emotions about myself.

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Um, but like, that was something I

struggled with for so much, you guys.

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And you would think now like seven

years later, being 25 years old, that

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this you are enough thing wouldn't

come back up in my life, but it does.

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Like, I mentioned in episode two

how to pivot while staying iconic.

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Like, That's a deep rooted insecurity of

mine, like, am I ever going to be enough?

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It comes up in certain situations

again, because I'm brought automatically

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back to 19 year old Amanda, and

then if we go even deeper, that's

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like 6th grade Amanda, right?

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And then if we go even deeper to that,

that's like 1st grade Amanda, where

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I truly never Felt like I belonged

and I never thought I was enough.

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That insecurity and

that self doubt, right.

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It, like it grows and it sprouts up

and it just keeps going and going and

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going until it almost feels suffocating,

you know, and it's not a fun feeling.

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And I just wish I could tell 19 year

old Amanda that just because There's

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all these other things going on, and

you may feel pressure to want to change

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parts of your personality, or parts

of how you dress, or like anything.

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You don't need to, because there

is so much power in just being

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yourself, and you are enough as is.

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Alright, number three.

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Nothing or no one can define you.

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You can only define yourself.

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I think specifically with this

one, it comes down to labels.

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Going back to what we just talked about.

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When you're at that age, that very

prime age of just starting adulthood.

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You're kind of pushed into that world.

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Just, okay, here you

go, like figure it out.

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They kind of like throw you in the

deep end and hope you like know

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how to swim so you don't drown.

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That's kind of how I think of this like

whole concept of like going to college

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at 18, 19 years old and just trying

to figure it out and trying to survive

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right because it's like they hold your

hand all the way up until you're 18 and

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they're kind of like up There you go,

have fun, figure it out, do all these

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things for the first time, and you're

like, Oh my god, like, what do I do?

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Which goes down to, like, when you're

in those types of environments, right,

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in college specifically, I'm gonna

talk about, like, there's so many

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labels that people love to put on

you to define you, whether it's your

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relationship status, your sexuality,

Your weight like what major you are.

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Like people automatically classify you

and label you into these like little

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boxes of who and what you should be which

I guess also goes back to that thing of

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like just not feeling like I was enough

because people kept trying to put me

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in boxes and label me into these things

that I didn't associate myself with.

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People just tried to keep putting

me in these boxes and these

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ideas of who they thought I was.

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And at a point, I just,

I just accepted it.

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And, and just let what these

people were classifying me as were.

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whatever and just like started believing

it as my own narrative which I mean

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obviously we saw when you know I spoke

about getting broken up with that letter

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in the box right like I let that define

my life for about two months until I

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was like whoa we need to stop like I

don't want to live like this anymore and

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just always going back to this common

thing that has always been in my life

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of like, people trying to define me.

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I wish at 19 I was able to Give myself

so much love and understanding when

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I was in that very confusing area of

trying to figure it out and constantly

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failing and We all know I hate failing.

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But like at that age you fail a lot

like you fail a lot and I think for

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me personally It always came down to

I was failing because I either didn't

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feel like I was enough, or I was

trying to be someone that I wasn't.

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I was trying to conform to these labels

that people were trying to define me as.

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And I think we've all seen the magic and

the power of leaning into who you are so

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unapologetically and so boldly, right?

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Like, it is an amazing thing to lean into

every unique aspect that makes you you.

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And when you try to be

something that you're not.

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It's not gonna work out in your favor

because it's not staying true to you.

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I didn't really realize how all these

lessons all came back to the core

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foundation of Dare To Be Iconic.

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The more I talk about it out loud, the

more I fully, truly realize the power of

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the message of Dare To Be Iconic, but like

truly like all these things that I wish I

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told myself when I was younger all comes

down to this core messaging of I wish I

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just would have dared to be myself because

there is so much magic and power in it

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and to be fair, I didn't know who I was.

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Because one, I didn't take the

time to truly get to know myself.

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Two, I kept trying to be all these

different things other than myself.

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And three, I just didn't

love myself enough.

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When I look back at college Amanda To now.

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Like, 25 year old Amanda looking

back at college Amanda, specifically

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at 19, 20, I don't recognize her.

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And it's not because I'm ashamed of

her or anything, I'm still so proud of

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her because I see the strength that it

took to Overcome a lot of hurdles and

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challenges and like figuring it out.

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19 year old Amanda dealt with a lot

of shit and she came out on the other

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side Maybe not glowing Like, like,

let's be real, like maybe it wasn't

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glowing, but like she came out on the

other side and she survived, right?

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That seed of turning your pain

into power happened at 19.

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It happened then.

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All these things that I wish I would

have told myself and I know we're not

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even like done with the list yet But

they all come down to like I wish I

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just loved myself a little bit more.

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I wish I gave myself the grace that I

gave other people back then and I wish I

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was just a little bit more understanding.

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I know why I was so hard on

myself, it was because I didn't

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know how to love myself properly.

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And I think when it comes to this

whole concept of self compassion,

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We need to start building it up

by learning how to love ourselves.

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And in order to love ourselves And to

start that process, We need to just shed

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all these expectations of what society

wants us to be what other people want

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us to be and we just need to be who we

want to be and who we are and we need

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to lean into that and we need to just

Dare to be who we are Because that

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is what makes us so uniquely iconic.

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And that's the first step to building

self compassion, I think I didn't

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really realize that until now.

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And going on that, the next thing

I wish I would have told myself

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is that your boundaries are not

less than because someone doesn't

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understand or respect them.

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Boundaries truly are an

act of self compassion.

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You know what's right for you.

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And if someone disrespects that, if

someone makes you feel stupid for a

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decision that is right for you, they

are not meant to be in your life.

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And this goes back to I wish I loved

myself a little bit more and I wish

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I knew myself a little bit more.

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But like at that point in time,

I just like dealt with it.

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I just said, oh, Okay, well then maybe

it was stupid because I was naive

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and young and I was like, okay Well,

maybe that's not the right boundary.

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Maybe I need to try

something different then.

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That's a lie I knew what was

right for me and and I just

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started bending over backwards

and losing myself in the process.

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I wish I had someone that I could look

to at that time and have that like,

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realization moment of like, you know

what's right for you, and if someone makes

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you feel inferior because of that, they

need to get the hell out of your life.

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They are not meant to be in your

life, and you need to walk away.

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Or you need to kick

them out the damn door.

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Exactly like that.

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You need to kick them out the damn

door because they don't deserve you.

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Period.

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And the last thing I wish I told

myself, and I don't tell myself

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this often, But especially back

then, 19 year old Amanda needed to

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hear that she was proud of herself.

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I think she took a lot of unnecessary shit

and dealt with it by herself, and I don't

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think she took the time to truly, truly

realize how powerful and strong she was.

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And I'm proud of her for that.

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I'm proud of her for coming out

on the other side stronger even

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if she didn't see it back then.

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I'm proud of her for figuring it out

as much as she can and doing what she

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needed to do to take care of herself.

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I think that that last thing right for

self compassion is really Realizing how

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far you've come, right, I think, in order

to start giving yourself the love you

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deserve and having that understanding

is, you need to have that self awareness

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of how far you've come, and 19 year old

Amanda truly would not have even imagined

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in a million, million years how her

life would turn out seven years later.

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So those are the five things I would

have told 19 year old Amanda to start

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giving myself the love that I truly

do deserve and that understanding that

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I so easily give out to other people.

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But you know what?

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We all do it, and I know

I'm not alone in it.

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So now let's go now into the present time.

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Let's talk about how you can give yourself

or build self compassion on the daily.

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Now, the first thing I think in

order to build self compassion is

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to start with mindful self talk.

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So to reframe your mindset and retrain

your brain to start avoiding those harsh

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judgments, those harsh conversations,

those harsh things you say about yourself.

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Let's reframe your mindset, let's retrain

your brain to start thinking into a

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more positive mindset to have that

gentle encouragement, just be kinder

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and be nicer to yourself and The first

thing we can do is, okay, let's be a

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little bit more intentional and mindful

with the way we talk to ourselves.

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And a great tip is to think about it as in

you're talking to your best friend, right?

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We will never say half of

the mean stuff that we say to

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ourselves to our best friends.

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So if that helps you reframe your mindset

and retrain your brain into having that

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more gentle and encouraging conversation

with yourself, then Then do that

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.

Now my second Next tip on how to build self compassion on

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the daily is journal prompts.

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You guys know I love a good journal,

and I love a good guided journal.

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Specifically, there is a prompt

in my journal, Break Up With The

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Past, Fall In Love The Future,

that I think is so prevalent to

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this concept of self compassion.

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And it's in step three of the

journal, because there are five steps

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in turning your pain into power.

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There's little exercises within each step,

so this one is in step three of the five

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part process, and it's called dare to

love a letter to your iconic future self.

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Give yourself the love

you genuinely deserve.

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Dare to love the incredible person you

are becoming and let this love letter be a

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testament to the unwavering self love you

cultivate on your transformative journey.

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Now, I think there is something so

beautiful with writing down all your

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emotions, feelings, and thoughts.

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And I think there's something

even more beautiful about writing

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that in a love letter to yourself.

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And maybe I'm biased because you know how

I love to reclaim letters, and I think

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writing a love letter to yourself not

only is a big theme of Dare to be Iconic,

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but I think it's Again, just so magical

and beautiful because you're truly taking

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that concept of self compassion which

is to give yourself the love you deserve

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and that kindness that you deserve that

you so willingly give to others like

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let's pour it back into ourselves and

by writing a love letter To yourself,

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it allows you to have that vital self

reflection that you need in order to

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have self compassion for yourself.

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And I think that's beautiful.

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So I think a guided journal and writing

love letters to yourself is what we need

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to do to start building self compassion.

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And the third way on how you can

build self compassion on the daily

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is just embracing your imperfections.

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We are all imperfectly iconic.

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And I know I mentioned that a lot

in season one, specifically episode

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three, "How To Be An Icon",, but

there is just so much beauty in

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embracing the messiness in life and

the imperfections that we have, because

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that's what makes us uniquely iconic.

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That's what makes us an icon.

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By us being so accepting of the

things that aren't perfect, allows

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us to be kind to ourselves, allows

us to love ourselves, right?

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Because we're loving every part of

ourselves, even the imperfections, even

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the not so pretty parts of ourselves.

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We learn to love them.

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And I think those are always going to

be the hardest parts to love, right?

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Like it's not going to be easy for

us to love the unhealed parts of us.

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It's not going to be

easy to love our flaws.

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It's not going to be easy to

love, you know, the stuff that we

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don't want to show anyone else.

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Like it's not easy to love those not

so shiny, not so pretty, not so perfect

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parts of ourselves, but once we challenge

ourselves to start loving those parts

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of us then truly, no one or thing can

define us, can write our story, can tell

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us who we are because we love ourselves

unapologetically and wholeheartedly.

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Alright Radiant Icons, that is

your tea time sesh for today.

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Now let's get into the

Dare to be Iconic Hotline.

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Hey Amanda, what if I feel like I

made too many mistakes in my past?

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How can I show myself compassion

when I feel so much regret?

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Well, I would tell you that you're

not alone in this thought process.

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Everything that I said in those five

things I wish I would've told my younger

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self at 19 Is all rooted in regret.

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I regret a lot of things at 19.

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I wish I would have stood

firmer in my boundaries.

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I wish I wouldn't have let

other people define me.

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I wish I would have listened to my gut.

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I wish a lot of things and I regret

a lot of things at that time.

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And I try not to think about it too

much, because I know it's not healthy.

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But I would be lying to you if I told

you that this feeling that you described

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right here is like, non existent, because

it's valid and you're not alone in it.

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And I wish someone else would

have told me the same thing, so

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I'm telling you that as well.

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Like, you're not alone in this.

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Because I feel this.

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I'm currently going through

it, and I've been going through

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it for seven years of my life.

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And it's not easy.

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And the first thing I would tell you

that I've learned is that there's

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no such thing as too many mistakes.

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There is nothing that you cannot overcome.

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There is nothing that you

cannot bounce back from.

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The beauty about life is that

we can start over so many times.

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And the beauty with mistakes is that we

learn from them, even if we don't want to.

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But we learn from them.

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But there's no such

thing as having too many.

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There's no such thing as that.

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Now, when it comes to regret,

that's a trickier one, right?

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Like regret and self compassion, it's

like the devil and the angel, right?

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Regret is a very heavy emotion that

a lot of people don't talk about.

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And it's, it's hard.

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It's hard to overcome because sometimes

it feels like you're suffocating.

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Sometimes it feels like

you're drowning from it.

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Like, I'm going to be so for

real, like sometimes that's what

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it feels like living with regret

because it almost feels like guilt.

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You're guilty of something

that you shouldn't be, right?

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And guilt is also very heavy, and they're

like best friends for regretting guilt.

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Like, they go hand in hand skipping down

the neighborhood, and it's annoying.

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It's really truly annoying, because

I'm just trying to live my life while

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regret and guilt are having a party!

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And I don't want that.

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But you know what?

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That's the reality of the situation.

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Need to learn how to love myself,

even with the guilt and regret

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that I have deep down in my heart.

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But I need to reframe my mindset and

retrain my brain to be kinder to myself

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and to be nicer to myself when that

regret creeps in, when that guilt creeps

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in, when they all creep in, honestly.

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Like, they all just come together.

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Like, I need to train my brain and

reframe my mindset and have that mindful

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self talk that we just spoke about.

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When these heavy, dark emotions

come up, and it's hard, and it's not

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gonna be easy, but I know you can

do it, and we're doing it together.

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You are not alone in it.

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Trust me.

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I gotcha.

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I'm right there with ya.

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Hey, Amanda!

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How do I stay consistent with self

compassion, especially on hard days?

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I think when it comes to building

self compassion and being consistent

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with it, it's all about accountability

and incorporating it into your daily

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routine like you would when you add

any other new habit into your routine.

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So, for instance, if you had done the

75 Soft, or if you did the Daring to

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be Confident Challenge with me, right?

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They were all New habits that we were

incorporating into our routines that we

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were challenging ourselves to do for a

certain amount of time And you know, we

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were holding ourselves accountable whether

it was with our iconic besties with the

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internet By sharing our journey or like

writing it down in a tracker, right?

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Like We were holding ourselves accountable

through that entire journey, and that's

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the same concept with self compassion.

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So, start a little, like, 15 day

self compassion challenge, and

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maybe it's like, Oh, for five

minutes a day, I do journal prompts.

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For ten minutes a day, I, like, do

affirmations Or maybe I do like some

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mindful self talk exercises or like

create a self care ritual, right?

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that i'm incorporating into my

routine like whatever it is, it

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comes down to accountability and just

Incorporating it into your routine

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like you would any other habit.

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That is your episode today, Radiant Icons.

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I hope you enjoyed it.

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If you did, make sure to leave a

rating, a review, to subscribe, to

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share it with your friends, to share

it with anyone and everyone because

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you know we love more Radiant Icons

in our iconic community of ours.

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And yes, I never get tired of saying

that spiel because I just love it.

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So, but like, honestly, honestly,

subscribe, share it with your friends.

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Let me know what you

think of this episode.

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It was a little bit different,

but like, I enjoyed it.

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I think it was very

therapeutic in a sense.

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I feel like, honestly, Season

2 has been very therapeutic.

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I mean, Season 1 was as well, like,

don't get me wrong, but like, Season

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2, we're having a lot of realizations

live on air while we're recording it.

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And half the time, I don't edit

them out, because that's the

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magic in it, that is the magic.

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Honest, real, raw, vulnerable,

that's Dare to be Iconic for ya.

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But like honestly, this episode I had

a lot of epiphany moments, and I hope

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that These epiphany moments that I had

or the advice that I shared of what

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works for me can be helpful for you on

this journey of learning how to build

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self compassion and giving yourself

the love and kindness that you deserve,

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because we truly do deserve the best.

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But you guys, let's talk about next

week real quick, because I'm so

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excited to be welcoming our first

Everyday Icon for season two, my

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girl, Agatha, F1 with a twist.

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We're talking to her about her

motorsports journey and her

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dare to be iconic origin story.

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Agatha is one of the first Radiant Icons.

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And she wrote this beautiful

LinkedIn piece of how Dare to

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be Iconic has changed her life.

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So I thought, you know what?

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For season two, there is no one

better to bring back everyday

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icon than my girl, Agatha.

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So we're talking about all things

Dare to be Iconic and how Dare

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to be Iconic has influenced her

life and the impact it has made.

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And I think it's so important for the

Radiant Icon community to hear not only

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my story, right, and the things that I

learned on this Dare to be Iconic journey,

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but from other Radiant Icons and how

Dare to be Iconic has impacted their

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life and what their origin story is.

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And I just love it.

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So I'm so excited to share

Agatha's DTBI origin story.

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And if you guys want to share your

origin story with me, make sure to DM me.

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I love hearing them.

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It truly makes my day.

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So anyway.

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I'm gonna go, but I will

talk to you guys next week.

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Remember radiant icons dare to be iconic.

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Bye!