Yesterday, I discovered a new podcast,🎙. ‘I’m Here For The Food’ is hosted by @melyssaford along with her co-hosts @bluecentric and @misschantelle.
The ladies are about six episodes in, but because I was late to the party, I am just wrapping up episode one. In the first episode titled, “Meet Your Besties,” we got to learn more about the hosts and how they were brought together to form the podcast. Melyssa touched briefly on her experience as a media personality and the influential people she’s been pleased to interview. She discussed having to give herself somewhat of a pep-talk to increase her confidence when in the presence of such respected individuals. Melyssa also revealed that there was a time that she struggled with self-kindness, which is something that I can totally relate to.
“I’ve had to come to terms with, at one point in my life, how cruel I was to myself,” she said. “I was the definition of a masochist.”
It wasn’t until I heard Melyssa say this that I stopped dead in my tracks, simply because I was all too familiar with the dark and negative internal dialogue she spoke of. She also referenced being a Scorpio, which we ironically have in common. Now, I’m not at all conversant on the subject of astrology as it relates to personality traits, so I don’t know if being a Scorpio necessarily has anything to do with us being overly self-critical or if at some point I just began internalizing unhealthy experiences and the debris from past failed relationships or simply not being where I expected to be in life by a certain age, which caused me to somehow self-loathe and become insanely self-critical.
To read more on the importance of self kindness and how I struggled with it, click the link in my bio. 💕
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