About this episode
Your boss doesn't quite make eye contact in a meeting. You text someone and they don't get back to you. And it sticks. The whole rest of the day, some part of you can't put it down.
In this episode, Dr. Aziz walks through the wheel of life. A metaphor he uses with clients to show why your nervous system is still looking up to people the way you did at five years old, even when you're forty. Even when those people are old. Even when they're not actually that powerful anymore. Even when, sometimes, you don't even like them.
This episode covers:
- Why telling yourself to just be more confident never quite works
- The wheel of life metaphor: how the developmental wiring that was appropriate at five gets stuck running at thirty-five
- The equation underneath all of it (approval equals self-worth) and why it has to be broken
- Two pathways for reclaiming the authority you've been giving away
Discover your approval type. Take the 2-minute quiz at https://www.draziz.com
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Work with Dr. Aziz directly:
The Unstoppable Confidence Mastermind is a year-long program for people ready to unwire this pattern at the nervous system level. Application at https://www.socialconfidencecenter.com/ucmv3.
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