Continually engaging in sabotaging behaviours will negatively impact many aspects of your life and hinder your personal growth.

Do any of these behaviours look familiar?

• Conforming to others’ expectations
• Compromising on your core values
• Criticising or blaming yourself
• Putting everyone’s needs before your own
• Playing the role of a martyr
• Avoiding difficult conversations
• Silencing yourself to keep the peace
• Not believing in yourself
• People pleasing or perfection

If so, try this…

• Self-reflect. Once you develop insight into where the fear or lack of self-esteem comes from you can become more intentional about where you need to make changes.
• Write it out. Set meaningful goals and identify what small changes you need to make to stop the behaviours.
• Befriend yourself by replacing critical thoughts with more nurturing ones.
• Reach out for help. Communicate your feelings and be open to receiving support.

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