What if you know you're worthy but you still don't feel worthy?

You can say "I am enough" a hundred times and still feel the pressure to prove yourself, please everyone, achieve more, or become someone "better" before you believe you deserve love, belonging, and acceptance.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Marisa G. Franco, New York Times bestselling author of Platonic and author of Worth: The New Science of Self-Esteem and Secure Attachment, for a deeply honest conversation about self-worth, self-esteem, shame, people-pleasing, perfectionism, burnout, and secure attachment.

We explore why trying harder to feel worthy can actually keep us stuck and how our nervous system, memories, relationships, and deeply held beliefs about ourselves shape the way we experience worth.

In our conversation, we unpack:

• Why you can know you're enough but still struggle to feel worthy
• How hyperachievement, perfectionism, and people-pleasing can become ways of seeking validation
• The "feel-heal-do" framework for working with difficult emotions
• Why shaming your insecurities can actually reinforce them
• How secure attachment changes the way we experience ourselves and our relationships
• The difference between healthy self-esteem and self-esteem that depends on proving yourself
• How memory reconsolidation can help us update painful emotional patterns
• Why old memories and emotional triggers can make the past feel present
• How to stop abandoning yourself in the pursuit of approval, achievement, or acceptance

Dr. Franco brings together psychology, neuroscience, self-esteem research, attachment theory, and emotional healing to offer a different way of thinking about worth: you don't have to fix yourself into becoming worthy.

If you've ever struggled with low self-esteem, self-doubt, shame, people-pleasing, perfectionism, burnout, or the feeling that you're never doing enough, I think this conversation will give you a deeper understanding of where those patterns come from and how you can begin building genuine self-trust from the inside out.

You don't have to earn your worth. You can learn to feel it.

Connect with Dr. Franco:

• Instagram: @DrMarisaGFranco
• LinkedIn: Dr. Marisa G. Franco
• Website: DrMarisaGFranco.com
• Substack: Attached by Dr. Marisa G. Franco
• X/Twitter: @DrMarisaGFranco

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