The Self-Awareness and Self-Compassion Podcast
Ever need a word of encouragement and a story that feels like a warm hug for your soul? Join life coach Blaze Schwaller as she explores what it means to be imperfect, human, and striving for a fully engaged and colorful life in this series about stretching to reach your highest potential while honoring the full range of your emotions and experiences. Whether she's talking about crippling self-doubt or the joy of befriending feral cats, expect these poignant conversations to be your weekly boost of self-acceptance, humor, and motivation. Formerly the Full Spectrum Feeling Podcast.
The Self-Awareness and Self-Compassion Podcast
Managing Unhealthy Expectations and Ditching The Comparison Trap
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🌿 This podcast is now archived, but these conversations around self-awareness and self-compassion still matter deeply.
I now continue this work on Anchored & Alive with Blaze, a seasonal approach to emotional regulation, burnout recovery, and building a steady, supportive relationship with yourself. Listen here.
Our mind is constructed to show us contrast and compare things. Unfortunately, this results in having unrealistic expectations about how we’re doing in life.
Rather than experiencing life as something that happens through us and with us, most of us experience it as something happening to us, or not happening to us.
We all try to live our best life, but it’s an annoying sentiment. It sets us up to wonder if we’re not doing good enough or best enough.
The wave of quiet quitting and quiet firing that’s made headlines lately highlights that we are becoming aware of unrealistic expectations about how we should spend our time and if we should constantly be striving for striving’s sake or if it’s OK to just enjoy our lives and do what needs doing without adding stress on top of that.
I’d argue that you’re doing your life just fine. You’re going to get better at stuff just by showing up and doing stuff each day. Yes, if it brings you joy, you can focus on that. But if it doesn’t you aren’t lesser or bad for finding your enjoyment and peace elsewhere.
If this episode supported you, you may enjoy my current work on Anchored & Alive with Blaze, where these ideas are explored through seasonal rhythms and deeper integration.
