Self-sabotage is a common behavior that involves sabotaging our own goals and desires. At its core, it involves engaging in actions and behaviors that directly or indirectly sabotage our progress toward our goals and desires. How can we shift our self-talk in a way that leads us to the life that we want?

In this episode, I sit down with Teri Karjala, a Life Transformational Strategist, Speaker, and Author. We delve into the various forms of self-sabotage, examine why we engage in this behavior, and explore strategies for overcoming it. With over 20 years of counseling background, Teri shares her insights and expertise that help us unlock the potential within ourselves.

Join us as we explore and learn how to overcome self-sabotaging and achieve our goals.
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Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Unlocking Your Potential with Teri Karjala
Welcome to Actions Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today I want to talk to you about a term that you probably have already heard called self-sabotage. Self-sabotage is something that I think a lot of people didn't hear about 15, 20 years ago. At least, I don't remember hearing about that. But nowadays it's kind of a common vernacular. It's what our thoughts are doing to our life's outcome. And I think we've all heard some version of the phrase, "Thoughts create form. Your thoughts are what your life is going to become." Unfortunately, some studies have shown that up to 80% of all human thoughts can be negative.  

My guest today, Teri Karjala — who is the coordinator of Talking with Teri — she has coaching events, as well as a podcast of her own about the subject of how we can reframe our talk, our self-talk, in a way that's going to lead us to the life that we really want.

 
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Teri, welcome to the program.

 

Thank you. It's so great to be here with you.

 

It's wonderful to have you. Can you start by telling us a little bit about Talking with Teri, what you're all about summarized at a really high level? In essence, what is it?

 

Yeah, so, it was really an evolution. I used to be a therapist. I was a therapist for 26 years. I built a very successful business. It went owner-independent about nine years ago. And so, back in about 2010 I — actually, even before that, it was really interesting. Because I was telling my social media person at the time. She goes, "What's your retirement plan?" I was just word vomited on her. I said I'm going to be traveling around the world. I'm going to be sleeping. I'm going to be doing this. It will be called Talking with Teri. She goes, "Oh, my gosh. I love it. You should buy the domains." I knew I wasn't ready for it. It was funny, because when I told her that, I was absolutely terrified of public speaking.

 

Oh, wow. Okay.

 

That's how you and I met. I was speaking at an event. So, I've come a long way. But it was so funny because, again, I think that the counseling — you have a master's degree in counseling and have tons and tons of certifications, and things of that nature. That then created the foundation. As I was counseling, I realized that there were faster, easier ways. I started studying with brain researchers and people that talked about how our brain is formed, but also how our thoughts, our behaviors, our habits all get connected inside of our brain. And what is that programming? And so, really looking at how our brains get programmed based on these previous belief systems.

 

And so, what I've found over the time of working in my therapy practice is that there was faster wait. I mean, I had a client one time. I was her 19th therapist. She's been in therapy for 32 years. I told the person who referred her to — she's like, "Well, Teri does things differently." And so, she referred to me, and she started with like, "I want to tell you, my story." I said, "Well, you know what? Let's not start there." She looked at me, like, "What?