Embracing Authenticity: Self-Acceptance with Graham Skidmore

Welcome to this special recap episode of "Understanding the Science of You." Today, we delve into the essence of embracing our true selves and the challenges that come with it. Despite being naturally wired a certain way, many of us spend our lives trying to conform to external expectations.

Our host reflects on the importance of self-acceptance and the unnecessary complexities we add to our lives by not being true to ourselves. Through heartfelt discussions and shared experiences, we explore how individuals have navigated their personal struggles and triumphs.

Join us as we highlight stories of overcoming adversity and the transformative power of authenticity. Discover how learning to appreciate and enjoy oneself can lead to a more fulfilling and enjoyable life.

ABOUT THE PODCAST Welcome to Understanding the Science of You, a podcast founded by Graham Skidmore and EnGen. It's purpose is to help you discover untapped aspects of yourself and alternative paths to personal freedom and empowerment outside of conventional systems.

We want listeners to accept responsibility for creating change in the areas they desire. Creating change is done through personal contribution, not creating controversy.

We hope listeners will be inspired to create change within their lives after listening to our podcast because they will feel:

... Someone is fighting for them ... Cared for ... Heard ... Understood ... Hopeful ... Valued ... Appreciated ... Loved by the Universe

By living an authentic and healthy life of joy, kindness and compassion to demonstrate what's possible, our listeners will provide inspiration for others to challenge their limiting beliefs to start the movement.

To learn more about the podcast, visit scienceofyoupodcast.com.

Episode Transcript

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Thank you, listeners, of Understanding the Science of You for joining us here
on our, I guess we'll call it a quick little recap episode.
I think anytime you go through life, you know, and you go through big moments
or you look back and you go, hey, what would I have done differently knowing what I know?
Well, can't go back in time. But what I can do is, you know,
is make another video and add to the stuff to the intro or some things to think

(00:20):
about that I didn't say then that I want to say now.
And so one of the and one of those is really just starting out with the with
a head scratcher question. And that is, right, we all come wired how we're wired.
We all come as, you know, we're all inherently have our interests,
things that we're good at, et cetera.
And so being able to be, right, being able to be natural, being able to be me

(00:43):
should be the easiest thing in the world, right?
But yet it's so challenging. Instead of just being me, I spent all this time
trying to figure out how to be like everybody else or to be like something that
was going to be accepted or wear masks or a plane of things, right?
And so instead I made something so complicated of just being myself.
I came into this world a certain way. I didn't need to do anything to be this

(01:03):
way, right? So why can't I just be that way?
I don't know why I decided to complicate it, right? But unraveling it and just
learning how to just be me and accept myself and enjoy myself,
appreciate myself, right? Makes things a heck of a lot more enjoyable.
And so, you know, I really want to point that out because as I'm bringing on
listeners and we're talking and we're going deep and people are being vulnerable

(01:23):
and sharing their stories and how they learn through trauma and adversity, right?
Yeah. There's a certain comfort or relatability that comes from sharing and
struggle or tragedy with people who are like, oh yeah, bad stuff happened to
me or bad stuff happened to you. Look, it's normal.
Yeah. It's real easy to normalize bad things or or unpleasant things,

(01:43):
but that doesn't mean we want to normalize it, right?
And we definitely, and we surely don't want to accept it, is that that's just how it is, right?
So the purpose in sharing these stories is for the next part of their story,
which is, hey, yeah, this was the set of circumstances and things that I found
myself associated with or part of, but here's how I got out of it.
Here's how I learned how to take me from point A to point B to break out of

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my mold and build a bridge to where I wanted to get to, right?
And take comfort in all of these other people that also had struggles but found
their way out because if they can do it, then you can do it.
If one person can do it, then another person can do it, right?
And so that's really what the beauty is here. And with all of the different
guests, it's just simply another.
Demonstration, like millions of them out there, of humans doing cool human things

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and overcoming obstacles and challenges and learning and enjoying that, frankly, right?
I think learning should be an enjoyable function.
So that's what we're trying to do here, you know, through this podcast is helping
to make that experiential learning aspect a little bit easier.