My "Good Mom" Identity and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Shame and Self-Love

It's rarely one moment. It's a hundred small ones, each time you didn't measure up to an expectation you thought someone had of you, until that becomes the story you tell about yourself. In this episode, Erica explores how shame quietly shapes our inner critic, how it fuels perfectionism, and how it keeps us small. She weaves together Brené Brown's research with the real stories of women in the Summer of Self-Love series, including a romance novelist whose creativity was crushed by one negative review, a woman whose inner critic nitpicked every meeting and every mirror, and a woman who played small for years rather than risk being seen failing. This is part of the ongoing Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated relationships with self-love and self-criticism through the lens of Human Design. Read the Substack article here: Shame and Self-Love [https://open.substack.com/pub/ericav/p/shame-and-self-love?r=5bla2] Book your Life Patterns Review [https://ericavoell.com/audit] here. Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell [https://substack.com/@ericavoell] Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/ [https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/]

Unfiltered: Sam, Tammy, Michele on Self-Love in Midlife

Meet three of the women, Sam, Tammy, and Michele, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through. This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated relationships with self-love and self-criticism through the lens of Human Design. Read the Substack Article: Unfiltered: Sam, Tammy, and Michele on Self-Love in Midlife [https://ericav.substack.com/p/unfiltered-sam-tammy-and-michele?r=5bla2] -- Book your Life Patterns Review [https://ericavoell.com/audit] here. Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell [https://substack.com/@ericavoell] Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/ [https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/]

Unfiltered: Jen, Helena, Csilla on Self-Love in Midlife

Meet three of the women, Erika, Jenn, and Therese, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through. This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated relationships with self-love and self-criticism through the lens of Human Design. Read the Substack Article: Unfiltered: Jen, Helena, and Csilla on Self-Love in Midlife [https://open.substack.com/pub/ericav/p/unfiltered-jen-helena-and-csilla?r=5bla2&utm_campaign=post] --- Book your Life Patterns Review [https://ericavoell.com/audit] here. Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell [https://substack.com/@ericavoell] Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/ [https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/]

Unfiltered: Erika, Jenn, and Therese on Self-Love in Midlife

Meet three of the women, Erika, Jenn, and Therese, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through. This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated relationships with self-love and self-criticism through the lens of Human Design. Read the Substack Article: Unfiltered: Erika, Jenn, and Therese on Self-Love in Midlife [https://ericav.substack.com/p/unfiltered-real-stories-of-self-love?r=5bla2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=podcast&triedRedirect=true] -- Book your Life Patterns Review [https://ericavoell.com/audit] here. Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell [https://substack.com/@ericavoell] Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/ [https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/]

The Story Behind the Summer of Self-Love

Most of us didn't learn self-criticism from a magazine. We learned it from the people who loved us. In this episode, Erica traces her own story from a family of well-meaning critics to the time when she discovered that her Human Design chart told her something she would have ever believed before – that the second half of her life is truly about Self-Love. Book your Life Patterns Review [https://ericavoell.com/audit] here. Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell [https://substack.com/@ericavoell] Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/ [https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/]