The Self Love Project
Welcome to The Self Love Project — the podcast that helps you quiet your inner critic, rewrite your self-talk, and finally feel like your own biggest supporter.
Every week, host Megan Lawther (mindset coach, podcast host, and self-love cheerleader) shares relatable stories, mindset shifts, and soulful encouragement to help you feel better, love deeper, and stop self-sabotaging the life you actually want.
Expect real talk, a little humor, and the kind of reminders that feel like a warm hug and a motivational slap on the same day.
New episodes drop every Saturday morning (MDT) — so whether you're folding laundry or taking a walk, consider this your weekly permission slip to choose yourself.
The Self Love Project
Validating Your Feelings: Why We Feel Guilty for Struggling
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In this episode of The Self Love Project, Megan explores the quiet habit so many of us have of comparing our pain to the pain of others — and how quickly we dismiss our own struggles the moment someone else has it “worse.”
She dives into the invisible hierarchy of suffering many of us operate with, where our feelings only seem valid if they’re serious enough, dramatic enough, or painful enough to earn permission to exist. Megan unpacks the guilt that comes with struggling during someone else’s harder season, the pressure to always “hold it together,” and the way self-abandonment can disguise itself as gratitude or perspective.
This episode shifts the focus away from minimizing your emotions and toward something far more compassionate: allowing your hard seasons to matter simply because they are hard for you.
If you’ve been downplaying your struggles, telling yourself you should be more grateful, or feeling guilty for not being okay, this conversation will remind you that pain is not a competition — and your feelings do not need to be the worst in the room to be real.
Follow me on Instagram: @meganelisalawther
Send me an email: Megan@theselfloveproject.ca