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Speaker 1: Apoday production.

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Speaker 2: We begin today by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the

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Speaker 2: land on which we gather today and pay our respects

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Speaker 2: to their elders past and present. We extend that respect

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Speaker 2: to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's here today. Welcome

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Speaker 2: to the Grow and Glow Podcast. I'm Ashy, I'm Kiara.

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Speaker 2: This is a podcast where we learn, laugh, and level

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Speaker 2: up together. Let's go deep, let the.

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Speaker 1: Emotions flow, and find the lessons to grow and glow.

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Speaker 1: Nothing is off the table with Grow and Glow and

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Speaker 1: we're here to be your expander.

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Speaker 2: Hello, guys, welcome back to Grand Glow.

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Speaker 1: Why are we so weird?

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Speaker 2: Whacky Wednesday?

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Speaker 1: Whacky Wednesday? Today we're talking about victim mentality. Yeah, something

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Speaker 1: that we're definitely I feel all have fallen into at

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Speaker 1: some point in our lives, maybe some more than others.

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Speaker 1: And listen to this. You might think of people in

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Speaker 1: your life that really it's their emotional home and they

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Speaker 1: go to But let's get straight into it. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: someone who is in victim mentality is someone that's just

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Speaker 1: always the victim. Like life's always hard, things are always

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Speaker 1: going wrong, the glass is half empty. They haven't found

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Speaker 1: a way to be more positive and to find the

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Speaker 1: lessons and to grow through the hard times. They just

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Speaker 1: think life is just always hard for them, and they

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Speaker 1: sad place if that is your emotional home. Yeah, Like

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Speaker 1: we all have moments of feeling like a victim, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes you are victimized. But the key is to be

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Speaker 1: able to feel all and then know when to move

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Speaker 1: because otherwise it really is a low vibration. Like you

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Speaker 1: just don't feel happy, you don't feel good, you don't

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Speaker 1: feel a lie, you can't you lose your power, you

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Speaker 1: don't take steps to move forward and grow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, when I think of someone in victim mentality,

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Speaker 2: what's happened and they don't actually look at the facts

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Speaker 2: of the situation and go like, Okay, what's actually really

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Speaker 2: blah blah, poor me, yea, rather than being like, oh,

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Speaker 2: maybe they did it because I did that, or maybe

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Speaker 2: trying to have compassion and see things from another angle.

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Speaker 1: They really blame a lot too. They blame other people,

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Speaker 1: they blame outside situations, they blame their environment, they blame

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Speaker 1: their past a lot. And this was me to a

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Speaker 1: It wasn't until I started in my self development journey

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Speaker 1: what a victim I was like in my whole life.

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Speaker 1: I just remember being such a victim, and I think

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Speaker 1: So that kind of got that outside of it. And

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Speaker 1: as humans, we know we have human needs and one

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Speaker 1: Like my real father didn't want me, my stepdad was abusive,

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Speaker 1: I was unlucky. Everyone else had it easy, Like these

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Speaker 1: day forward it was just like change my life so good,

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Speaker 1: And I still allow moments to be a victim and

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Speaker 1: that to become my emotional home. That doesn't serve me,

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Speaker 1: If you are feeling victimized and you're in that moment

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was in victim mentality not all that

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Speaker 2: long ago. If you guys, listen to our mystery episode

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Speaker 2: that we did with Katie, which was such a banger episode,

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Speaker 2: So if you haven't listened to it, you sho go

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Speaker 2: listen to it after this one.

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Speaker 2: It was a banger. We need to do another one

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Speaker 2: of those. But basically I spoke about the season that

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Speaker 2: I was really fixating on everything that happened. And that's

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that victim mentality place that I was in

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Speaker 2: So before that, I hadn't gone and see psychologist. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like what really helped me was that

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Speaker 1: bad so much. I was like, he told me how

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Speaker 1: that is all true. And I was victimized for sure

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Speaker 1: But it gets to a point and it's like, well

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Speaker 1: that was my past, but my past doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: Like this is my responsibility to create a life that

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Speaker 1: myself that I'm not dumb, that I am lovable. Everything

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Speaker 1: But taking responsibility is truly what stepped me out of

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Speaker 1: which I do once again, it's taking responsibility like hey,

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Speaker 1: well shit, that fucked that happen, or that's really not

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Speaker 1: what I had planned or man, I can't believe they

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Speaker 1: said that this has happened. But what am I going

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Speaker 1: to do with it? How am I going to perceive it?

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Speaker 1: How am I going to look at? What's the meaning

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Speaker 1: you can put into a situation. You can blame, you

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Speaker 1: can make up this story, you can assume over here,

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Speaker 1: but you actually get to decide how you view it.

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Speaker 1: And it can be positive and empowering or it can

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Speaker 1: be victim and negative and shit, yeah, so much choice

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Speaker 2: So should we go through the signs of being in

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Speaker 2: victim mentality? Okay, so first up, we have got stating

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Speaker 2: that people are better off without them. Oh yeah, so

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Speaker 2: saying you're better off without me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And when someone says that, now, like you can

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Speaker 1: have so much compassion love, But I also just want

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Speaker 1: to be like come on, like shake you, like no,

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Speaker 2: It was really cool thinking about like positive negative thinking.

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Speaker 2: So this is out of the book. You can be

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Speaker 2: Advocates of positive thinking suggest thinking positive thoughts as much

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Speaker 1: It's just allowing like when thoughts come in, not to

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Speaker 1: absolutely love that.

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Speaker 2: Also, we hope you guys enjoy it. Today's wacky Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: and I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I think we should cut the wacky. Some episodes will

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Speaker 1: be though but ye, this is a.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful, wonderful Wednesday. The words wondrous I don't know. All right, guys, Friday,

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Speaker 2: see you Friday.

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Speaker 1: Bye. Eight