Breaking Free from People-Pleasing: Achieving Self-Alignment and Authentic Living

Are you unknowingly sacrificing your happiness to gain approval from others? What if breaking free from people-pleasing could unlock your true potential? 

Join Anthony Hartcher as he delves into the hidden costs of approval-seeking behaviours rooted in childhood survival instincts. Discover the key traits of people-pleasers and learn actionable strategies to realign your actions with your authentic goals, boosting both mental and physical wellbeing. 

In this episode, Anthony shares personal reflections on balancing freedom and dependence in relationships, offering profound insights into the power of boundaries. Learn why saying no to misaligned opportunities is essential to preserving your self-worth and achieving a fulfilling, values-driven life. Don’t miss this transformative discussion about reclaiming your identity and pursuing a life of authenticity and passion.


About me&my health up & Anthony Hartcher     
me&my health up seeks to enhance and enlighten the well-being of others. Host Anthony Hartcher is the CEO of me&my wellness which provides holistic health solutions using food as medicine, combined with a holistic, balanced, lifestyle approach. Anthony holds three bachelor's degrees in Complementary Medicine; Nutrition and Dietetic Medicine; and Chemical Engineering.

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Chapters

• 0:06 Understanding People-Pleasing and Approval-Seeking
• 12:30 Navigating Relationships and Self-Discovery
• 21:37 Establishing Boundaries and Self-Discovery
• 33:19 Discovering Boundaries and Self-Alignment
• 37:54 Maintaining Self-Identity and Well-Being

Transcript

Anthony Hartcher: 0:00

Are you lost? Seeking something? Trying to find happiness? Are you always looking for approval? Wanting someone to say yes and not being able to handle rejection? If this is you, then this episode is certainly for you. This episode is on people-pleasing and understanding the hidden costs of people-pleasing. And yes, you've landed on an episode of me&my health up. I'm your host, Anthony Hartcher. I'm a clinical nutritionist and lifestyle medicine specialist. I love this podcast because it's all about enhancing and enlightening your wellbeing. And I love doing it from a mind and body perspective. And in this episode, we're focussing on the mind because as you know, the mind is connected with the body. What goes on in the mind influences what goes on in the body. So if you want overall wellness, you need to be looking after both your mind, your mental health, and your physical health. And this episode is focused on people-pleasing and understanding what it's costing you from people-pleasing. And certainly there'll be people out there listening that are not quite sure whether they're a people-pleaser. So I'm going to discuss how you can unravel whether or not you're a people-pleaser and once you're aware of it, then you can actually do something about it. So certainly as you know, health up is a very practical and pragmatic podcast. It's about giving you tips and hints on how to succeed in all areas of wellness and wellbeing. So let's talk about people-pleasing and are you a people-pleaser? And in essence, a people-pleaser is someone that says, yes, yes, do everything and struggles to say no. They, in essence, they'd like to say no because often when they say yes, they thinking, oh, I don't really want to do that. And now I'm looking for a reason to get out of it, right? So if that's you, then yes, that's people-pleasing. When you're looking for approval, seeking approval from others, you know, asking them whether they agree or whether they approve or whether they're on board or what they think, all that sort of thing. Seeking approval is certainly in essence, people-pleasing because you're looking for their approval to carry out or execute a certain behaviour or to do something. And so yeah, if you're a yes person or, you know, always seeking approval or just wanting to fit in, so you're doing things to fit in, which is very much that saying yes to everything and not really considering whether it's something you want to do, but because other people are doing it or you think you should do it. So if you're thinking should or to, must, all those sorts of things, then it's coming from somewhere else. It's not coming from within. It's not truly aligned to what you want to do. In essence, this podcast, I love doing this podcast. So there's no one telling me to do this podcast. I'm not trying to people-please anyone in doing this podcast. I'm actually recording this episode on a public holiday. So it's a delight to be doing this for you and enhancing your wellbeing because I love doing that. That's my mission. My purpose is to enhance and enlighten the wellbeing of others. So I live for that. And so if you're catching yourself and considering things that I should turn up to this function, or it's something I should do, or I'm, you know, I ought to do it, or I've got to do it. Those sort of thinking in your brain is you looking to fit in and please someone like by saying yes, that you think that they want you there. But in essence, they could be just trying to be polite and make you feel that you're welcome. But if they might underlying think that I don't really want you to come, I want you to say no. And at the same time, you're thinking, yes, I want to say no, but I don't want to let you down. And therefore it's a lose-lose situation. So this episode is helping you identify when you're in a people-pleasing mindset and how to like, so creating that awareness and then how to break free of that cycle of people-pleasing. So it's probably important to understand where it comes from. And it starts from childhood. It really does. It starts from wanting approval and seeking mum and dad's approval and acceptance because you want to belong, you want to feel connected and it's a real survival instinct. So it ultimately comes from surviving because as humans, we need one another in order to survive. We're not solo creatures. We are collaboratory social beings where we work together to achieve common outcomes, or I guess common outcome is survival. So that's where it's wired in terms of that primitive wiring from early on is seeking mum and dad's approval and acceptance so that you fit in. You're reliant on them to survive. You cannot physically fend for yourself. It's not like some animals where they're popped out and they're pretty much standing within a day or two or within hours of being popped out. And so they're much more quickly able to survive without the support of their parents a lot quicker than what humans are. We actually need time with our parents in order to be able to survive by ourselves. And so it really comes back to that early days of wiring the brain and being in that survival thinking that I need my parents, I need their approval and I need their love in order to have a shelter in order to be fed. And so we're constantly doing yeses to our parents. And then as we start to get older, we start to want and desire more independence. We want to find ourselves. With our parents, we're sort of coexisting with them. As we age and we want to get more independent, we want to actually find ourself and who we are and what we can contribute to the wider community, to the wider social network or social fabric. So that's in essence why we sort of start saying no is we develop, we're wanting to find ourselves. And through our teenage years, we're saying yes and no. We've got a blend of yes and no's where in some ways, realising that mum and dad are still feeding us and providing shelter and we want connection with them and the support in order to survive through them. And so we say enough yeses in order to stay connected with them and keep under the roof of mum and dad. Obviously, there's those children that can't handle that and really want the freedom a lot earlier. And every child is different and everyone grows at a different rate and everyone seeks that independence at a different rate. And so some children leave home really early, some are forced to leave home, others choose to leave home. And ultimately, it's them on that mission to find themselves and realise that they develop enough confidence within themselves to be able to, you know, they can do it, they'll find a way. And so that really comes from how your parents have raised you, whether they've allowed you to find your soul, find your essence through allowing you to fail or allowing freedom. So if you weren't given much freedom, then you become more dependent on your parents and you become more of a people pleaser. So if your parents were over-supportive and gave you a lot, then there's not enough reason for you to want to seek something else because they're providing basically all the survival needs. Whereas your parents, you know, said, you know, you've got to work out your own lunch or dinner, then obviously you start finding ways to survive by yourself. And so it really depends on how your parents raised you, whether they were over-supportive parents or they, you know, actually gave you a lot of freedom and independence at an early age. If they gave you a lot of freedom and independence at an early age, you're more likely to leave home earlier and seek your own identity and find your own identity and thrive. Whereas those that spent a lot of time being over-supported and nurtured and babied, so to speak, take much later. They find it much later in life. They look for it much later in life, well beyond, you know, their friends. Their friends are out flatting amongst one another where they're still living at home. So again, we all do this at different rates depending on our upbringing and our parents and how they wanted to raise us and continue to say yes based on our desire to stay truly dependent on them. Or we start to say no to start finding our own independence. And so that occurs at different rates. And so this is how we end up where we are in terms of whether you're in your 20s, 30s and 40s or 50s. You know, some people are still very much yes-pleasers because that's how they were raised. That's all they know. That's their world. It's their reality is people-pleasing and hence why they don't like when people aren't doing that to them because they think that's reality, that everyone should people-please. And then that's tied up with social, I guess, norms, so to speak. So the social norms are about fitting in, about conforming. It's like the laws, the laws of the state or the laws of the nation. It's about conforming, fitting in. You know, we saw it very much in that COVID period. There was people that were strongly aligned to fitting in and doing what the social norm was. And there was those that wanted their freedom, their independence, and they wanted to choose whether they got vaccinated. And ultimately, they wanted that choice. So they aligned more with the anti-vaxxers, although they might not have been totally anti-vaccinations. They just wanted the freedom to choose as opposed to the government telling them what to do. So they didn't want to say yes to the government. They wanted their own, you know, that freedom, the freedom of choice. So that sort of brings me like to, I guess, people that are migrated to Australia that very much dependent on staying in Australia. So they'll conform to the government, the government's rules in order to stay. And that can create some sort of dependence on the government because you never wanted to return back to the war-torn country, so to speak, because that was so terrifying or traumatising that you then develop this strong allegiance and alliance to the government and their way of thinking. And you tow the line because you don't want to get kicked out of the country. And that can become very much hardwired in your psyche. And then that hardwiring in the psyche can be then passed down to future generations. So again, there's so many ways in which this can come into the way in which we go about living life. Ultimately, people-pleasing is a form of attachment, a form of dependence on someone else or something. Whereas obviously when we're not people-pleasing and we're finding our own identity, we're essentially looking to discover who we are and define ourselves. And in that process of defining ourselves, we start putting boundaries in place. We start saying no, whereas the people-pleasers won't. They will constantly allow people to interfere with, basically take over them in essence, or tell them what to do, and they'll just conform and tow the line. Whereas you've got those that really want the freedom and that choice and the independence, and they don't want, and they're the ones that say no, and they struggle to fit in. So I've very much been on my own personal journey in relation to this. So obviously I went through my childhood and very much reliant on my parents, but my parents gave me a fair amount of freedom and choice. And so I've become quite dependent from an early age because I was given so much freedom. Whereas I know other people that, well certainly I married into a family where they didn't quite have the same independence and freedom. And so they've developed a stronger attachment and dependence on the family. Whereas because I was given so much freedom and independence, I don't have as much of an attachment and dependence on the family. And so I see this play in our relationship dynamic in terms of how my wife wants to raise the children versus how I, because obviously I was given lots of freedom. I want to pass that freedom on my children. And my wife was given not much freedom, and she wants to give them a bit of freedom, but not too much. And it's playing that tango as to how much freedom and independence you give your children and how much support that you give your children. And ultimately children and everyone will thrive when the support meets the challenge. And so the challenge is something new, something you haven't encountered, and obviously the support or the things that you know and know and that comfort zone. Obviously when we step out of our comfort zone, we're going into an area of unknowns, an area of challenge. And stepping into that comfort zone is where we grow and develop and develop more independence and freedom and choice. And in that unknown, as we explore that unknown space, as we go into that, we actually find ourselves, we find out who we are. So what I've certainly, I've discovered more about myself in terms of stepping into business, because stepping into your own business, you haven't got the support of the company that you used to work for. And obviously there was an element of dependence upon that company and I would toe the line and I would be a yes person in order to stay employed with that company. Stepping into my own space gives me ultimately more choice and more freedom. But with that is less security, more insecurity, more challenge, more stepping into the unknown. And so this is why some people stay stuck in the corporate world is because they develop some dependence and that dependence gets stronger over time. And they're less willing to take the risk of stepping into their own space and into a space of unknown. Because in essence, that's where we're super challenged and we can get quite comfortable being in a company environment. So companies, you know, in order for us to stay employed, we need to toe the line. We need to say, yes, we need to follow their rules. Whereas you step into your own space, you can create your own rules and there's more choice and more freedom. However, it comes at a cost. You don't have the same security. So I think you understand that what is happening in this dynamic around people pleasing is it initially starts with survival mentality. We need it. We actually rely on one another, but then we eventually get very more knowledgeable. We become more independent because of our knowledge, our education, and we're starting to then wanting to flourish and starting to wanting to explore. Because in the exploration of life is the, I guess, that variety that we see. Because we get bored with the same old. And if you're turning up to the same job, the same people, that can become too comforting and not enough spice. And so then we either seek spice in the corporate and we'll start to challenge the corporate norms because we're less attached to staying attached or dependent on that corporate. And we're thinking, well, I'm good enough to find another job. And so therefore you start challenging the company's lines and rules and things like that. And because you're becoming more confident in yourself, in your own ability to find something else. And that often, we seek that variety, that variety is driven by curiosity. And very much as a teenager, we're starting to explore that curiosity. We're starting to get curious about what it's like to be by ourselves and fending for ourselves. And we do, we have a desire to explore that, to step into the unknown and to feel it because that's where the variety is. And that's where the spice of life is. And so you can really see how this entanglement happens. And we go on this tango and dance through dependence and attachment. And people, please, it's going to cost us. It's going to cost our relationships. It's going to cost us in terms of money, financial outcomes. It will cost us also in terms of like our growth, our personal development. It's going to obviously cost us in terms of our ability to be able to stand out and to ultimately contribute in a greater way. And ultimately will cost you, you achieving your dreams. Because when we have this dependence and this attachment and this people pleasing, we often will hold back on chasing our dreams because we're worried about what other people think and whether they'll approve of us. And ultimately, this is what my dilemma was when I was contemplating leaving corporate was the dilemma I had was, would I still have the approval of my parents? Because I'm stepping into a space that they necessarily didn't encourage when I was leaving school. And so I was thinking, oh, it's going to cost me my relationship with my parents. And I knew I was going to be challenged by my parents because it was, again, against what they viewed as the way in which you live life, in essence. And so I was willing to take that challenge because I had the support of Adriana, my wife. And so I had support through her. And I knew I'd be challenged through my parents. But that sort of balance, that mix enabled me to explore the unknown, to be able to start detaching from that area that I thought was, in essence, people pleasing, which was working in a corporate job, doing the corporate thing. So that ultimately wasn't where I was going to thrive. So I knew that and hence why I stepped out. And I've never looked back in terms of it was challenging, very challenging. And I think I've really grown a lot from taking that step away from people pleasing and having approval from my parents in terms of the career I was doing, and now doing something that I love doing and I can turn up on a public holiday to do. So what is it costing you in terms of relationships by people pleasing? Because ultimately what will happen in a relationship if you're people pleasing all the time, you're trying to just conform to how they want you to be. And so if you don't conform, so I guess the behaviour that it drives into you and the wiring in your brain is that if I do the opposite, they won't love me. And therefore I'm going to keep doing what they want me to do. But it's not necessarily you. You're trying to be someone else in order to fit into that relationship. And so what that relationship of conforming and saying yes is costing you is you. It's costing you your identity. It's costing you your ability to thrive. And so what that can cost over time to you is it can create low self-esteem, low self-worth because you lose who you are. You start to lose ultimately yourself because you're so wanting to do what others want you to do as opposed to the things that are really true and deeply meaningful and purposeful to you, true to your soul, true to your spirit. So what we want the relationship to evolve as is that respect for one another of who they are and helping one another thrive in terms of who they are, as opposed to saying that this is the way you should do in order to win my love, in order to win my approval. Because when you place conditions around love, it's not true love. So there's no conditions around love. It's unconditional. So you love, ultimately love is loving the person for who they are, not for what or how they do things for you or them fitting in with how you want them to behave. It's loving both sides of them. It's loving when they do the things that support you and also do the things that challenge you. Because ultimately the relationship grows through that challenge. You've probably noticed that when you've had tough times and you've been most challenged in your relationship, it's prospered as a result of that. Or if it didn't, then it was meant to go the way it did in terms of in your own separate ways, because by staying together, you were both going to ultimately not thrive. You both were going to struggle and yeah, basically get down to that lowest common denominator of just holding things together by just doing enough people pleases and yes sirs and no sirs, just to hold it together by a paper thin thread. Ultimately you want the relationship to prosper and that requires the balance between the challenging of one another and supporting one another. But it's finding that nice mix for one another and respecting one another for who each other is as opposed to wanting them to be someone. So that's how it can cost you in relationships. It will cost you your identity. If all you living the life that you want to live that ultimately you'll be lost and you'll be regretful long term because of that, you'll start to develop resentment to that person because that's the way you've chosen the relationship to evolve through people pleasing. Ultimately you want it to evolve through supporting one another and challenging one another and ultimately being respectful for one another and allowing each other to be who they are as opposed to you wanting them to be the person that you want them to be in that relationship. And ultimately that comes from you seeing how your parents interacted and that's how you think relationships are. Ultimately you need to find the way in which how you want to be in a relationship, how you want to show yourself, how you want to show up and you want that to be respected both sides. So it's a path of you know a journey of entanglement of challenge, support, hard times, good times but it's all together and it's all part of the growth of the relationship. In terms of what is it costing you in finances, well if you're saying yes to clients or yes to opportunities that you don't really want to do or don't think that you have the capacity to do then ultimately it's going to come at a cost because you won't be able to service the customer well and they are going to you know have a you know you're going to damage your reputation and they're not going to use your services again because you didn't serve them well because you just thought that that's the way you just take any business that comes your way and you don't consider whether it's the right type of business and whether you have the ability to serve that growth or that new business. And so ultimately we don't want to just say yes to every opportunity that comes our way because what will happen is we'll get to spread too thin and we'll become exposed and we'll damage our reputation. So we want to accept the work that's really aligned to the organisation's values and ultimately the direction the strategic direction of the organisation but we don't want to take on any work because we're not specialists in that and you know we ultimately not going to get the greatest result for the customer. So we want to do what's in the best interest of the customer and say no to the work that's not aligned in terms of our strategic direction or your strategic direction. So it can really cost you in terms of your vocation or in the area of work you are by saying yes to everything by thinking that that's the way in which you grow and ultimately that growth won't be the growth that you're seeking and eventually will result in reputational damage. It's the same as money or money opportunities or where do you invest your money if you say yes to every opportunity that looks flashy and sparkly then your money well first of all you're throwing money away in essence it's not well considered as to whether that money's going to be aligned to whether you can get it back or you know whether you can use it within a time frame that you want to use it within or whether it's trapped up and locked up and so ultimately we want to make decisions that are better aligned to our financial goals and not say yes to every financial opportunity because there's always financial opportunities that will come on your radar and so I think it's really important to understand what is what is the most important for you in that point in time in terms of your financial goals and that's going to change over time but that's going to allow you to make better decisions in terms of saying no to financial opportunities if you have a financial plan if you have a financial strategy it's the same as you know customers taking on new customers you've got to filter them as to whether they're aligned to what you're seeking or and ultimately in the area that you want to grow because if they're not then it's saying no and so this is the same as relationships is if your partner asks you to do something that you don't want to do say no and be comfortable saying no because it's ultimately you're not going to do it well you're going to ultimately let them down because you're not going to do it as they want you to do it because you're not them they're going to have the expectation that you'll do it just like them so really i mean this is and certainly the relationship part of things it's really active listening and understanding where each person's coming from in order to evolve that relationship otherwise if you don't understand why they're saying no then you will feel rejected but if you ultimately understand the reason why they're saying no you'll have an understanding and better perspective and understanding as to why they're saying no so it's really important that you know the direction you're going in so you need to know yourself in order to be able to define your boundaries and so but in order to start to know yourself you've got to start to say no to things because if you're constantly saying yes you're scattered too thin and you won't you'll lose touch with yourself and you'll lose touch with what you want to do and what's truly important to you because you're saying yes to everything and you're doing everything yes yes yes and so you'll lose yourself in this process and you'll struggle to then develop the boundaries that you need to put in place in order to define yourself and in order to find yourself so the boundaries really define us the boundaries really start to tell people who we are and let people know who we are and so that then people can not love the person that you are demonstrating that you are so by saying no if you're constantly saying yes that you're like a chameleon you're just trying to fit in that but the person doesn't really know who you are so by setting the boundaries we define who we are and we discover ourself in that process because it allows time to check in with ourselves was that the you know was that a good decision did you feel comfortable with making that decision what did you do as an alternate option to as opposed to doing what they wanted you to do did that feel more aligned to your soul your heart if yes then yes it was a right decision if no and is not quite sure then again at least you explored it at least you tried something new ultimately just saying yes all the time for the sake of people pleasing is just losing yourself losing yourself in the crowd getting lost in the crowd of what everyone else is doing in order to stand out we need to start saying no we need to define our boundaries and then we i guess start to find ourselves in that process because we start to really get in touch with what inspires us what lifts us up as opposed to constantly just not knowing whether it's lifting you up or dragging you down so say no start defining who you are if you've got a financial opportunity presented to you start to assess it and start to think about what you want what are your needs wants what are your desires is it aligned to that if it's not then it's no but start to consider things as opposed to just staying a spontaneous yes because you think it's going to make you lots of money you're going to be a millionaire overnight because most likely that doesn't happen that doesn't ultimately we need to keep the money invested in order for it to compound because the way in which we make money is through compounding it's the compound effect of money so it's very hard to do quick entries in and out because you don't get the the eighth wonder of the universe which warren buffett that you know defined it as and that's the law of compounding and ultimately that's where people make their money is through that compounding effect so jumping into opportunities and jumping out all the time you're going to lose money ultimately you might get some wins um but over time if you keep doing it there's probably going to be more losses than wins so it's going to cost you financially it costs you in relationships it costs you in terms of your growth and development it will cost you in business it will cost you in your vocation all these areas because you're spreading yourself too thin you're losing yourself you lose your identity you get low self-esteem low self-worth and then you don't know where to start climbing out of this mess so the way in which you get out of it is start defining your boundaries start saying no to things that don't really excite you or inspire you uh if if they're just a mere or you know sort of nah let's see but there's no point is also that saying yes and hoping something better pops up so you can give an excuse or something like that over time that may be the way in which you do it but over time you'll get more comfortable more certain the more you know yourself around your decisions and you won't sort of say a tentative yes and then see if something better comes up and then give excuses. That's the way in which you sort of start this process, generally. Obviously, if you find yourself very quickly and aligning yourself to your values, probably worth talking a bit about what's important to you, and it's the things that really give you energy, what sparks you up. So what are the things that you get invited to, that you go to, and you feel energised? So those are the things or the confirmation to you to let you know that that was the right yes, that was the right invitation to accept. However, what are the things that you get invited to that you feel de-energised, that you get a sense that, oh, you feel deflated? They're the ones that you should have said no to, okay? Ultimately are the decisions where you would have been best to say no. So this can help direct you to decide, well, will this energise me? Will this bring me energy? Or will this take energy from me? Will it zap me energy? And if it's going to zap you energy, then it's a no. However, if there's other benefits of going, such as, for example, you can find something else that aligns to something else that's important to you, then you can start to think about all the benefits that you will get from going there to actually get a better perspective of what you're saying yes to. If you can't find them, ultimately, then it's probably a no. And this is a journey that you'll go on in terms of saying yes and no, and working out the things that, yep, that was a good decision. I feel that what I filled my time with, other than going to the event that I could have went to, then if that was, yeah, I had a great time doing the alternative, then the alternative was the right thing to say yes to. And ultimately, when we say no to something, we are saying yes to something else, which you want to be aligned to what's important to you. So make sure the yeses are very aligned to what's most important to you. And the no's are the ones that distract you, that take you away from what's most important to you. So today, I'm saying no to being out and probably down the beach in the sunshine, and a yes to doing this podcast, to enhancing and enlightening your wellbeing, because I find that very fulfilling. That's my mission, my purpose. It brings a great sense of deep and meaningful connection with feeling that I belong in this universe, that I have something to add, I have some value to contribute. So they're the things that you want to be saying yes to more often, and no to anything that takes you away from that. No to anything that really distracts you. So I find it very easy to say no to events that are not aligned to my health value. I have a strong value on health, very important to me. And so any event that involves drinking at a pub, I'll quite happily and joyfully say no to it, because I know in that setting, it doesn't really resonate with me. But if it's an event that incorporates health, such as doing an activity, then I'll gleefully, joyfully say yes to it and do it. And it feels very aligned to who I am. So it's going on that journey of defining who you are through setting boundaries, but setting the boundaries in alignment with who you are. So you need to find who you are, you need to discover that. And the only way you can discover it is start setting boundaries, start saying yes to the things that energise you and no to the things that zap you, that take energy away. So I really hope that helps in terms of that boundary setting and defining who you are, because ultimately, that will start you on that self-discovery journey. And then you'll make it, and it becomes easier to say yes and no to things, because you know who you are. When you're finding yourself, you're experimenting, and you'll come across things that you think, oh, I should have said no to that. But I said yes. And so that's a self-discovery. So don't be too hard on yourself. So that's really it in terms of this episode on people pleasing and how it's detrimental to you, ultimately, in all areas of life, and how it's costing you yourself, how it's costing you money, how it's costing you relationships, by just trying to fit in and trying to please others and trying to be someone else that you are not. So go about being you and go on that self-discovery journey and finding you by saying yes to the things that energise you, no to the things that don't, and ultimately, they might change over time. But it's really just allowing that transformation and really going on that self-discovery. However, certainly not saying yes to everything. It's really important, because you'll lose who you are, you'll lose your self-esteem, you'll lose your self-worth, and ultimately, can't identify with anything, and you just become lost in this world. So I hope this episode has really connected with you and resonated with you. Please share it with others that you believe that will find value in this episode. Stay tuned up for more insightful and exciting episodes of me&my health up, and I look forward to continuing to enhance and enlighten your wellbeing.

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