E29: The Power of Discernment, Part 1 - Belief Misalignment
Pop quiz: How many of these beliefs resonate for you?
- If I’m not exhausted, I must not be working hard enough.
- My schedule reflects my value.
- My clients’ outcomes are my responsibility.
- Nice therapists don’t rock the boat.
- If I charge more, I’m exploiting people.
- If I don’t know the answer, I’m failing.
If you said all of them, congratulations, you are a typical hardworking and dedicated female therapist! And you suffer one of the most common ailments in our profession – belief misalignment.
Thankfully, in today’s podcast episode, we are kicking off our new discernment mini-series by sharing some ways to combat this ailment, so that the stories we tell ourselves about our work and our self-care can be better aligned with the truth.
Episode Highlights:
- Discernment category #1: Belief misalignment
- Common risks and outcomes of misaligned beliefs
- Our personal misaligned beliefs examples
- Self-care experiments