Let's not play it cool, here: at some point, everyone struggles with how to love yourself. In this podcast episode, I'm talking about the tools and practices that I integrate into my own life, as well as the very human experience of figuring out how to love ourselves (truly and fully).

Why is change so hard, so difficult, so challenging? In this podcast episode, I'm taking you to an unlikely place to start creating change. It's a place beyond go-go-go action and it gets into the heart of the matter: change that rises organically from who you are when you slow down and stop the hustle.

Unhooking from illusion starts with a true willingness to unhook, in the first place--and that's why this podcast episode looks at those times when we *think* we're ready to unhook from an illusion, but we're actually just rehearsing our same old defenses against truly changing.

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I started podcasting because I wanted a more intimate forum to tell the truth (and the first episode of the Your Courageous Life podcast fell in line with that, as well). In this episode, recorded on a day when I felt particularly grateful for my life, I decided to "tell the truth" about a time in my life when I wouldn't have felt grateful to be alive. And also? I'm speaking into the uber-cheesy, yet delightfully effective, tools that I practice to live a better, happier, more courageous life.