Do you feel like you’re overdoing it in your self-discovery journey? Maybe it’s because you’re still not happy or fulfilled even after doing all you can find yourself. Although it might sound cliché, happiness and fulfillment is an inside job. Seeking external validation will only make you feel even more lonely and lost. Staying true to who you are and embracing life’s challenges are the only ways to find happiness and fulfillment while still going after your dreams. In this episode of the Live Your Personal Best podcast, I speak with Karyn, a happiness mentor, online course creator, teacher, and a thought leader in happiness and women’s empowerment. She shares how taking a spiritual journey almost drove her to a point of wanting to eliminate herself but was able to come back and really connect with the true her. Listen in to understand why happiness is an inside job based on your integrity, character, and the choices that make you feel good about yourself. Key Takeaways: ·      Stop looking for external validation by doing things that don’t add value to who you are. ·      How to rediscover your true self in all the ways you’ve been inauthentic to yourself. ·      Start normalizing where you’re and realize that feeling alone is part of the human experience. ·      Your happiness doesn’t come outside of you; it’s based on your integrity, character, and choices that make you feel good about yourself. ·      Start accepting yourself deeply where you are your meaning and purpose instead of seeking those things from outside. ·      Stop giving your power away and realize that being unhappy is also an inside job. ·      Let go of the fantasy that life is perfect and embrace the ups and downs of it as lessons to grow and become the best version of yourself. Episode Timeline: ·      [3:15] Karyn on her self-discovery journey gone wrong and how she reconnected with her true self. ·      [6:17] How we do things to be validated externally instead of doing what pleases us inside. ·      [9:31] How spirituality became another inauthentic experience Karyn overindulged in. ·      [11:18] How mentors helped her discover who she was in all the ways she had been untrue to herself. ·      [16:33] How to develop happiness and fulfillment from the inside while still going after your goals. ·      [20:57] Karyn’s Happiness Course – teaching women to feel good and enough in who they are. ·      [23:34] The myth that happiness is a feeling and that it’s different for everyone. ·      [26:15] Understand that life isn’t a straight line and accept its challenges to grow and learn. Quotes: ·      “Looking to the people and things outside of us to give us a sense of meaning and purpose because we feel so empty and meaningless on the inside, and in that is where we get lost from ourselves.”- Keren [8:00] ·      “Feeling fulfilled and being happy is about feeling good about yourself on the inside and developing self-value and self-worth.”- Keren [18:39] Links Mentioned: ·      Website: https://ahappinesscourse.com/ ·      Facebook: https://facebook.com/karynaseitz Book #2 details coming soon! https://www.instagram.com/liveyourpb/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices