There is room to self sabotage. It may be starting fights with your partner even when you're not mad, lashing out or neglecting your physical needs. These behaviors can be conscious or unconscious. And this kind of depends on our level of self awareness or I guess denial. This links back to Freud's initial ideas and conceptualization of self sabotage whereby he believed that the reason we create obstacles for ourselves is because our subconscious mind,. also known as the anti self, interrupts our logical conscious mind.
Sometimes our biggest enemy isn't others, it's ourselves. Self sabotage is a complicated psychological experience whereby we unconsciously undermine our own goals and wellbeing because of an implicit belief that we don't deserve our success, are afraid of failure, or cannot allow ourselves to be happy. From dating people we shouldn't, to procrastination, indecision, doom scrolling and self destructive behaviours, it all comes down to our unconscious beliefs about our self worth. Today we explore the origins and causes of self sabotage, from Freud's ideas of the 'death drive' and 'anti-self', coping mechanisms, to the impact of unresolved emotional trauma and self punishment to understand why it is we self sabotage, and how we can get out of our own way. Listen now.
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