HeyJaredNo User Manual — Mindfulness For Life Without Instructions
Craving steadiness, depth, and a more humane way of relating to your inner life? No User Manual is a reflective podcast hosted by mindfulness and compassion teacher and executive coach, Victoria Fontana.The show explores what it’s like to navigate life without…
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Untangling Subtle Self-Criticism: The Messages that Shape Us (opens the original)
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This episode continues the conversation on self-love and the inner critic by looking at the smaller messages that can pass through the mind almost unnoticed. Being late becomes, “I’m always late.” A messy room becomes, “I’m a mess.” Falling behind becomes, “I can never keep up.” A behavior, mistake, or difficult moment can quickly become a conclusion about who we are. These messages may seem insignificant on their own, but they can accumulate and influence how we see and treat ourselves. In this
What Does It Really Mean to Love Yourself? (opens the original)
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People often say, "You just need to love yourself." Yet for many people, that advice feels confusing, vague, or even impossible to apply. In this episode, Victoria Fontana explores a different way of understanding self-love. Rather than seeing it as a feeling we are supposed to generate, she proposes that self-love may be better understood as the way we relate to ourselves, particularly during moments of stress, disappointment, conflict, or shame. Using the story of a son deciding whether to hel
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