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Grounded Wildness
Let's face it. You've been surrounded by messages your entire life telling you to prove your worth through achievement, success, likability, and a million other forms of being "good." Over time, those messages become rules you follow, often without even knowing it. Those rules make you believe everything will fall apart if you slow down. They tell you it’s your job to be responsible for everything and take care of everyone. They make you feel guilty for saying no. They tell you to prove, please, and perfect your way through life. It's time to stop. It's time to break those rules – and start living in grounded wildness. Join speaker, award-winning author of 'An Overachiever's Guide to Breaking the Rules' and 'Grounded Wildness', and recovering perfectionist Heather Whelpley as she shares honest conversations that will empower you to stop performing your life and start LIVING it. If you're tired of burnout, hustle culture, and the weight of “should” and “supposed-to” and want more joy, impact, and freedom in your life, this podcast is for you. Learn more at www.heatherwhelpley.com
Grounded Wildness
EP. 26 - Four Ways You're Performing Your Life - Part One: Proving
Today's episode is the first of a four-part series to help you uncover where you are performing in your life. We'll talk about how you move from your youthful wildness where you aren't impacted by the rules into the years of performing, where you feel the weight of "should" and "supposed-to" and all the rules and expectations that make you feel behind, like you aren't doing enough, or that some part of you is broken. These rules tell you to filter yourself, hold back, and chameleon your true self to fit what is expected.
Then we'll dive straight into the first way you perform: Proving.
We'll hit on:
- Heather's story of proving and how it relates to overachieving, productivity, her body, dating, and men - and the somewhat embarrassing (but maybe totally normal?) ways she worked to prove herself to men, even well into her 30s
- A different way to look at worthiness that changed Heather's whole perspective (this one will especially resonate with you if you're confident in many parts of your life, but feel behind, broken, or less than in other parts)
- How to recognize proving in your own life so that you can start to break the proving rules and reclaim your freedom
Links:
- Pre-order Grounded Wildness - coming soon!
- Learn more about hiring Heather as a speaker
- Get An Overachiever's Guide To Breaking The Rules on Heather's website or Amazon