About Our Guest
Adia Gooden is a clinical psychologist, speaker, and coach who specializes in helping high-achieving individuals reconnect with their inherent worthiness. She is the creator of the Unconditionally Worthy Group Coaching Program and works with corporate audiences to promote self-worth and well-being.
Summary
Adia Gooden joins the podcast to discuss the concept of self-worth and how it is often tied to external accomplishments. She shares her personal experience of feeling empty and unworthy even after achieving her goals, and emphasizes that accomplishments alone cannot provide a deep sense of worthiness. Adia explores the societal and cultural factors that contribute to this mindset and explains how individuals can free themselves from the need for external validation. She offers practical tips for shifting the focus from achievement to self-compassion and self-love, and highlights the importance of redefining one's worth based on intrinsic qualities rather than external achievements. Adia also addresses the challenges faced in a corporate setting and provides strategies for maintaining a healthy sense of self-worth while pursuing professional goals.
Key Takeaways:
Achievements alone cannot provide a deep sense of worthiness.
Self-worth is often tied to external accomplishments due to societal and cultural conditioning.
Reconnecting with one's inherent worthiness involves freeing oneself from external validation and embracing self-compassion and self-love.
It is possible to pursue professional goals while maintaining a healthy sense of self-worth by prioritizing self-care and setting boundaries.
Quotes:
"We all long for unconditional love, but we don't necessarily offer it to ourselves very often."
"Reconnecting to this truth of who we are, because I don't believe that anything you could have done and anything you could have gone through can take away that inherent worthiness."
"You can still have goals, but how do you go about them? Do you go about these goals by not letting yourself sleep, treating your body poorly, not making time for movement, eating food that doesn't really nourish you, beating yourself up over every mistake?"
"Decoupling oneself from labor and capitalism is revolutionary, especially for black people who have a history of being enslaved and forced into labor."
"We have to shift our nervous system regulation. We have to be willing to be uncomfortable in the space and the rest until it gets comfortable because it will."
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