The Mindset Mentor - There Is Nothing Wrong With You
Episode Date: December 14, 2022Without being corny or cliche, you are perfect as you are and in today's episode, I am going to prove it to you.  Want to master your mindset? Every Monday I send out an email with mindset tips for... the week, click here to receive that email: http://mondayemail.com/ Follow me on IG for more inspiration here: https://www.instagram.com/robdialjr/ Follow the Mindset Mentor on IG here: https://instagram.com/themindsetmentorpodcast Want to learn more about Mindset Mentor+? For nearly nine years, the Mindset Mentor Podcast has guided you through life's ups and downs. Now, you can dive even deeper with Mindset Mentor Plus. Turn every podcast lesson into real-world results with detailed worksheets, journaling prompts, and a supportive community of like-minded people. Enjoy monthly live Q&A sessions with me, and all this for less than a dollar a day. If you’re committed to real, lasting change, this is for you.Join here 👉 www.mindsetmentor.com My first book that I’ve ever written is now available. It’s called LEVEL UP and It’s a step-by-step guide to go from where you are now, to where you want to be as fast as possible.📚If you want to order yours today, you can just head over to robdial.com/bookHere are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here:Instagram TikTokFacebookYoutube
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Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not
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messages throughout the week. Today, we're going to talk about the fact that there is nothing
wrong with you. You are perfect exactly as you are and you are not broken.
You know, the crazy thing that I've come to really understand is that life is hard. And
whether you have a hard life, whether you have what most people would not consider a hard life,
there's still a lot of really hard aspects of it. Maybe you have trauma, maybe you don't have a
whole lot of trauma, but there's also going to have trauma, maybe you don't have a whole lot
of trauma, but there's also going to be heartbreaks. There's going to be people who die that you know,
there's a lot of ups and downs of life. And in my line of work, I've kind of seen all of it,
you know, and I've seen the best sides of humans, but I've also really seen the worst sides of
humans. And I've had people share their stories with me that have been through some of the worst things that I could possibly imagine. You know, all kinds
of abuse, mental, physical, sexual abuse, suicides, murders, rapes, neglect. Like there's so many
things that you could, all of the dark sides of human, I have been told stories of, all of the terrible
things in the world. And the thing that I want to talk about today is about how no matter what
has happened to you, there's nothing wrong with you. And that just because something happened to
you in the past does not mean that you need to continue to carry it with you into your future.
And, you know, maybe you haven't had crazy trauma
that you would say, like, your life was pretty good. It was decent. You had some loving parents.
Maybe they were still together. Maybe they got divorced. So it doesn't have to be like this,
oh my gosh, massive trauma for it to leave a really deep emotional scar. You know, some people
feel bad because they feel like their lives are pretty good and they feel like they don't deserve to feel like they have trauma. You know, their parents are still,
I have a friend whose parents, a couple of friends I can think of now, two people specifically,
whose both their parents are still alive. Both their parents are still together. And they had
like a pretty decent life. They grew up like middle-class and things are okay. And they feel like they don't deserve to say that there was any trauma in their past
because they've had an easier road in their mind than the average person
or in some of the worst things that people have gone through, right?
And so they think to themselves like, well, I don't deserve to say that I've had trauma.
But then when you start to talk to them, you realize like, yeah, you've had some trauma
and you've had some things happen to you in the past that have made you who you are.
Some people have never been beaten before, but their dad worked all the time and never
gave them any love.
And so the father thought to himself, I can think of one ex-client that I have specifically,
whose father worked all of the time and he had a decent life,
middle class, everything, but his father never really was there for him because he was working
so much. And his father's way of showing love was providing for the family and making sure everyone
was good. But with that, this guy developed emotional neglect that came from it. You know,
his dad wasn't there and gave him the love that he really truly wanted. You know, some people, their mother, their way that they would, you know, train them
to grow up and be the way that she wanted them to be would pull their love away when
she was mad.
You know, there's definitely some trauma that can come from that.
There's trauma that can come from not getting the love that you want from a parent or having
the love pulled away by one of your parents.
Another person I can think of as I was writing this episode is I have another person I know really well whose mother instilled fear in her. And she instilled fear into her because
her mother always did that. And so her mother, so my friend's grandmother, is extremely fearful.
My friend's mother is extremely fearful. And both
of them instilled fear in their daughters because of the fact that they thought that's just the way
that it was. They watched the news all the time. Anytime something goes wrong, anytime there's some
plane crash in another country, she sends it over to her. And so there's been a lot of
unconscious fear programmed into her. There's a lot of trauma that she has around that.
Some people's trauma is neglect, emotional neglect, physical neglect.
And we all have different forms of it.
And all trauma in the brain and in the body is trauma.
So whether it is, you know, physical abuse or whether it's my dad wasn't there,
those are still forms of trauma that can
be inside of the body. It doesn't have to be still inside the body, but a lot of people continue to
carry those things with them. So quote-unquote big trauma and quote-unquote small trauma is really
just a human measurement. Trauma at its simplest form is not getting what you need in your
development. And one way that I like to think of trauma and a way
to think of it as is a breakaway from the state of love. You know, so if I'm talking about like
a car crash and you get PTSD driving a car, that's not really the trauma that I'm talking about.
I'm talking more about, you know, your parents' emotional abuse. When a parent emotionally abuses a child, that's a breakaway from the state of love.
When a parent neglects a child, emotional neglect, or they pull away their love from their child,
both of those are a breakaway from the state of love. Physical neglect, not getting the love that
you want and getting the caring that you want or getting the food that you need.
All of those things can be a breakaway from the state of love. Heartbreak as you get older is a
breakaway from the state of love. And so the state of love is really what I think we're born into and
the way that we are. But there's many things throughout our life that break us away from
this state of love. And it could be a big event that closes you off in your development. It could
be a smaller event that closes you off in your development. It could be a smaller event that closes you off in your development. It could be being bullied when you were younger.
But one thing, and the reason why I'm diving into this is one thing that I find with people
that's very, very common is because of the fact that they have trauma in their past,
their current self feels broken. They feel like there's a part of them missing. They feel like
they're not necessarily whole. They feel like they're not worthy. And they feel like there's a part of them missing. They feel like they're not necessarily
whole. They feel like they're not worthy. And they feel like there's something wrong with them
because of something that happened in their past. But really something that happened in their past,
whether it was quote unquote small or quote unquote big, is in the past. So it doesn't
necessarily need to be in the present moment, which means that we're holding on to our trauma.
So there's a difference between trauma and something that is traumatic, I guess you could
say.
Something that's traumatic is an event.
Gabor Monte always says this.
Gabor Monte is a psychologist who specializes in addiction.
He says the event is traumatic.
Trauma is us continuing to hold on to that event after the event has passed,
right? And so people feel broken. They feel like they're not whole. They feel like there's
something wrong with them. They feel like they're not worthy. They feel like they don't deserve to
be happy or they don't deserve to be healthy or wealthy or successful. And what it is, is something
happened to us in our past and we continue to keep bringing that thing into our
current reality. And if we're not careful, we will bring it into our future and bringing that into
our future is going to have some way of holding us back. And the way I like to think about it is
this, right? Let's say that there's a three-legged dog. Have you ever seen a three-legged dog?
I love three-legged dogs. And the reason why is because when you see a three-legged dog. Have you ever seen a three-legged dog? I love three-legged dogs. And the reason why
is because when you see a three-legged dog, besides the fact that they're missing a leg,
there's no difference between a three-legged dog and a four-legged dog. Even the two-legged dogs,
they only have the two back feet, two back legs, right? They are the same amount of happy as any
other dog. They are the same amount of love as any other dog. They have the same amount of joy
They have the same amount of love as any other dog.
They have the same amount of joy as any other dog.
So they could have been hit by a car.
They could have had an owner that had something wrong with them and whatever it might be,
and they caused trauma to their leg.
But that dog has three legs now, and they don't look at themselves and think,
there's something wrong with me.
I'm not whole, right?
It was an event that happened.
They let go of it. And we could talk
about, well, their memory, blah, blah, blah, whatever. But really what I'm trying to say is
they had an event happen to them. They're not bringing that event into their present moment,
but how many people are still holding themselves back because they're identifying with a version
of themselves that was 10 years ago, something that happened to them 10 years ago. You know,
that was 10 years ago, something that happened to them 10 years ago. You know, uh, my dog Toby passed away last year. And for the last year, Toby was losing his eyesight and he was losing his
hearing. He was, he was getting like the, it was the cutest thing ever, but he was the, the, the,
his paws were not, didn't have as much grip on his paws and we have, you know, tile floors and he was,
so he was slipping. So we had to put these little like stickers that, that basically put tread on his, his
paws so that he could stand up and not fall.
Right.
And so we started to feel bad for him.
Like I felt really bad for him.
Like this guy, this poor guy, he's losing his eyesight.
I can see the cataracts and we're calling him and he can't, he can't hear us.
And I felt bad for him, but Toby never felt bad for himself.
That feeling bad is a human construct.
They have no, he did not have one bit of thought that something was wrong with him.
He, up until the day that he died, was just as happy as he always was.
He didn't have as much energy, but he was just as happy as he always was.
And I want you to understand if the dog can do
that, if an animal can do that, we're also animals as well. Can we remember a lot better than a lot
of them? Sure. But a traumatic thing can happen to a dog and they don't bring it into this present
moment. A traumatic thing can happen to us and we bring it into this present moment. And so,
like I said, a lot of humans say like, I feel broken. I don't feel whole. I feel like a part of me is missing. I feel like a part of me was stolen. And I want
you to understand that when we have that type of stuff happen, all of that is just a story that
we're telling ourselves. Now, I'm not saying that you don't need to heal from your trauma. That's
the exact opposite of what I'm saying. What I'm saying is just because something happened in the
past doesn't mean that you need to bring it into your future with you. You're not broken. Every person on this planet goes through some shit. And just because
something happened to you in the past doesn't mean that there's something wrong with you.
And it's just a story that you're telling yourself. It's not true, but you believe it.
And that's the important thing to understand is that your story that you're telling yourself of,
I'm not good enough. I'm not smart enough. I'm not whole, something was taken from me, it was stolen, whatever it might be, it's
not true, but we believe it.
And the thing that we have to realize is the more that we repeat the story over and over
and over again, the more that we believe that story.
You know, and I've said this quote before, but there's a quote that says that if you
tell a lie big enough, long enough, and strong enough, and you keep repeating it, eventually people will come to believe it. The person who
said that was Hitler. If you tell a lie big enough and strong enough and you keep repeating it,
eventually people will come to believe it. How often do we do that to ourselves? There's something
wrong with me. There's something wrong with me. There's something wrong with me. I'm even hesitant
saying this out loud in the podcast right now because I just don't want my subconscious to take this in. But how often do we say something to ourselves? You know,
something happened to you seven years ago, 17 years ago, and you're continuing to say,
I'm unlovable. I'm not good enough. I'm unlovable. I'm not good enough. You know, your husband cheated
on you 19 years ago, and you've still been mostly single the last 19 years because you keep thinking,
I'm not worthy of love. I'm unlovable, right? So what happens is we have an event
that happens to us in the past and is traumatic, but we continue to pull this thing with us
through our every single day and create a narrative around that thing to make us think
that there's something wrong with us. And that's the trauma that we need to start to actually work
through and try to release and try to change our story around ourselves. It's not that you're
broken. It's not that you're unwhole. It's not that you're unlovable. It's not that you're unworthy
or that something is missing. It's that you won't stop repeating the story. And so if we're going
to change ourselves and change our lives, we need to put ourselves in the driver's seat
and not make ourselves victims anymore. What we need to do is instead of being victims of
our circumstances and victims of our lives, we need to start being the author of our story and
say, yeah, that fucking did happen to me. It did. Like for me, yeah, my father was an alcoholic and
he did pass away when I was 15 from being an alcoholic. Then there was many things that
happened around there, him going to jail and, you know, not picking me up when he was supposed to pick me up and not being around and not necessarily
taking care of me like, you know, a parent actually should.
Was that traumatic?
Yeah.
Could I sit here and give an excuse as to, well, I don't have what I want because my
dad?
Yeah, many people do.
Or we can look at it and say, just because that happened to me in the past in my, you
know, chapter, chapter nine through chapter 15 of, just because that happened to me in the past, in my chapter 9 through chapter
15 of my life, that happened. But I'm not going to continue reading chapter 9 through 15 because
I'm on chapter 37 right now. You can't allow those things to become your identity. You've got to be
very aware of when you start to say, oh, there's something wrong with us. Oh, there's something
wrong with me. I'm unlovable. I'm not smart enough. This happened to me years ago. You know, if you tell a child that there's
monsters under their bed every day, they'll be terrified to go to bed. What monsters have you
been creating in your own life? What ways have you been creating monsters and then terrifying
yourself from doing what it is that you truly want to do? Because you're telling yourself a lie.
Sure, it happened in the past. It's not happening anymore. And if you have trauma, if you have something traumatic that happened to you in the past,
we all have.
It's our, it is the phrase I always like to say in the quote that I got from, I don't
remember what it was, years ago.
But it says, it was not your fault, but it is your responsibility.
All of those things that happened to you in your past, they're not your fault.
You know, most of them are not your fault.
If you did something in a relationship past, they're not your fault. You know, most of them are not your fault. You know, if you did something in a relationship that could have been your fault, but you know,
if you're a child and things happen to you, that's not your fault, but it is your responsibility
to work through that thing.
You know, for me, like it's not my fault that my father's an alcoholic.
It's not my father.
It's not my fault that he never overcame, you know, his trauma from when his dad committed
suicide.
It's not my fault that he passed away when he was, when I was 15 years old, but it is my responsibility to heal myself from those things.
It is my responsibility to continue to keep on the path
and create the life that I want to.
That is my responsibility.
None of those things are my fault, but it is my responsibility.
And, you know, the problem with personal development,
and I love personal development, clearly, obviously,
but when we start to notice things that we want to improve in ourselves and the way we want to learn and grow, we can start
to feel like we're starting from a negative state. Like there's something wrong. Like,
well, I'm not even normal because I've got X, Y, Z wrong with me. Now, we've all got something
wrong with us. We're all fucked up, right? But your mess is your message. It's the thing that
you need to work through. It's your responsibility to do it. So then how do we start to solve this?
So I'm going to kind of give you some ideas of how you can start to work these things
and solve it.
The first thing that I would recommend is to talk with somebody.
And there's a quote that I want you to remember is that shame breeds in the dark.
So when you have these things, I think that I had a whole lot of shame when I was younger
about my father, a whole lot of shame.
I never told anybody about my alcoholic father.
He embarrassed me. He would show up to sports games, baseball games, basketball games,
wasted, and be that embarrassing parent that was inside of the, at the games and stuff like that.
And so I didn't, when he passed away, I didn't tell anybody. And I didn't tell anybody for years
about it. And I realized as I started getting on my personal development journey, that shame
breeds in the dark. And the less that I share it, the more that it has control over me. And the more that I share it, the more that I have control over it in the narrative in how I want to
be. So talk with someone, whether that's a friend, whether that's a therapist, whatever it might be,
try to talk with somebody. The second thing is to start telling yourself a new story. Don't say that
it didn't happen. I'm not saying that, but stop the story that you're telling yourself and tell
yourself a new one. Yeah, this did happen to me and this was a perfectly designed curriculum in my life because I'm going to do XYZ with it.
You know, I train a lot of coaches on how to grow their coaching businesses. And one of the things
that I love the most is that there's a lot of people who come in with traumas, but they've
taken the trauma and said, I've learned a lot from it. I've grown a lot from it. And I'm going
to use what I've learned from it to help other people who have gone through the same thing or are going through the same things. And so you've got to stop
the story that you currently have. You've got to tell yourself a new one and you've got to repeat
it daily. You know, if you want to just keep, you just have to keep it going because you know,
you've, you've told yourself whatever this lie is that you're not good enough or you're unlovable,
there's something wrong with you or that you're broken 10,000 times. So we've got to start to
rewrite that story. And so that's the second thing. Third thing is to accept it. Accept that
it happened to you. Accept that's who you are, what you've been through. Don't wish that it
would have been different. It was perfect. It was exact. And you know, Peter Cron always says,
what happened happened. It could not have happened any other way because it didn't.
It means that what happened to you, even though it might not have been what you wanted, it
was what happened to you because there's something that you're supposed to learn from.
There's something you're supposed to grow from it.
Instead of making it something that's holding us back, can we extract lessons from it and
allow our learning from it and growing from it to get us better in our path of life?
The fourth thing, this one's a hard
one. Forgive. Forgive the person. Not for them. Don't forgive them for them. Forgive them for
yourself. Forgive yourself as another person you should forgive as well. I have an entire episode
you can go back and listen to on forgiveness that I think is really important where I just talk about
how forgiveness
is the thing that's going to free you in your life.
Because something could have happened to you 11 years ago
and you're continuing to hold on to it.
You're mentally, emotionally, physically
just still wrapped up in that thing.
When you forgive, you allow yourself to get past it.
Whether you're forgiving yourself
for some mistakes that you made in the past
or forgiving someone else for something
that they did to you in the past,
it allows you to let go of it.
And the last one, as I've been saying
throughout this podcast, realize that you're not broken.
Your trauma builds you and you can build a new identity
for yourself from that trauma.
What do you want that new identity to be?
Realize there's nothing wrong with you.
You're perfect exactly as you are.
There's nothing that you could do or say
to make you more whole or more of a person
or more worthy or more acceptable than you currently are right now. You've just got to
understand deep in your bones that there's nothing wrong with you, but that you're going to learn
and grow and get better from what happened. So that's what I got for you for today's episode.
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Make it your mission to make someone else's day better.
I appreciate you, and I hope that you have an amazing day.