On this week’s show we are talking about how to become aware of the lies you tell yourself and how to use this knowledge to transform your life for the better.

We talk about some key players and provide some techniques below:

Zygmunt Bauman is a social theorist that has pondered the notion of cultural assimilation and how it shapes us as individuals and the choices that we make in order to fit in.

If you are interested in doing shadow work then I highly recommend Jordan Peterson’s Maps of Meaning (2017) and Maps of Meaning (2016) on YouTube.

JP also has a self-authoring website that is great for sorting out who you are, where you are at, what your life is all about. Check it out here

Check out “Honest Liars the psychology of self-deception: Cortney Warren at TEDxUNLV”

Key takeaways:

1. Cultivate self awareness: when you are triggered and have a strong emotional reaction to a situation, when what you say doesn’t match how you act, when you are thinking irrational thoughts you need to take a breath, take a step back and ask yourself what that says about you?
2. Many of us spend a really long time getting over something  or someone that happened to us in our lives, and we avoid our own approach to conflict in our lives. What does my reaction to this situation say about me?
3. With self awareness comes a greater sense of responsibility. once you become aware though, if you choose not to change that is your choice and your responsibility to live with the consequences.