Millie Bobby Brown recently announced that at the age of 19, maybe 20, she was engaged. For those of us who are unmarried or single, we all kind of took a bit of a deep breath in as the comparison and the milestone anxiety set in. The sensation that if there are people out there reaching these massive milestones at that age, we must be doing something wrong. We must be falling behind. So today, I want to break down the origins, the causes and the details of this experience,. How to push back against this feeling and respect your own path through your 20s, but also through life.
In our 20s, we face an increasing sense of pressure to reach certain important, life milestones, such as getting into our first relationship, graduating university, finding our career path, getting engaged and so many more. When we don't meet the expectations or the timeline that society gives us, we can feel like failures and begin to self sabotage or ruminate on our faults and flaws. This week we're going to explore the psychology behind milestone anxiety - the experience of stress and unease when we haven't achieved certain milestones by a certain age - why it occurs, the influence of social comparison and conditioning, how we can combat this feeling, practice self compassion and be excited by our own journey through life, and our 20s. Listen now.
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