#95 Being Kind to Yourself with Jonathan Troen | Stories of Courage

Jonathan Troen is a Life Mastery Coach and self love mentor who has dedicated his life to helping people find joy within themselves. He spent 20 years in the entertainment business, creating the life of his dreams, but he was not always happy inside and had stopped honoring his personal values. Through this journey, he realized that nothing was wrong with him and that self acceptance is a skill that can be practiced by looking at oneself in the mirror and picking out something one likes about themselves. He also suggests being grateful for what one does have instead of focusing on what they don't have.

Courageous Self-Confidence Episode Highlights

10:16 Jonathan's turning point to self-acceptance and how it helps us to connect to others 15:45 Simple measures of gratitude 17:22 The relationsihp between our physiology and confidence 24:28 Power of paying attention to your lanuage 28:02 When aligntenment is achieved - The observer and seen merge 32:22 Daily forgiveness practice

More profound ideas from this episode He then goes on to discuss his daily forgiveness practice, which is an important part of his own self-love journey. Lastly, he encourages listeners who may feel paralyzed by fear to accept the discomfort they are feeling and ask themselves what their next right action should be within 5 seconds before the saboteurs talk you out of it. If they don't take action in those five seconds, Jonathan suggests practicing forgiveness for not doing so.

Reference: Jonathan's website: https://selfloverevolution.com