The Inner Calling Podcast: Recent Episodes
Annie Gospodin
Insightful and informative conversations on self-acceptance, self-worth, identity, belonging, and emotional wellbeing. Annie Gospodin is a qualified coach with a background in Psychology. Her signature coaching program helps people all over the world to unconditionally accept themselves and finally feel whole by overcoming unworthiness, insecurity, negative self-talk, and self-betrayal. She also offers a 4-week self-paced online course - Return to Self, designed to help people cultivate a stronger relationship with themselves. Find out more at www.anniegospodin.com
This episodes explores why we tend to take things personally, where this pattern is coming from, and how to shift it. I share practical guidance that you can easily apply and strategies that can help you stop taking things personally.
This episode explores what self-trust is, what are the main reasons why we doubt ourselves, where this behaviour and thought pattern is coming from, and how to start the process of trusting yourself. I share practical guidance and journal prompts to help you strengthen your sense of self-trust.
This episode explores what belonging is, how it is different from fitting in, what is stopping you from experiencing belonging, and how to find belonging within and outside of yourself. I share practical guidance and journal prompts, designed to help you reflect and experience belonging on a deeper level.
This episode explores how to speak up and advocate for ourselves when we encounter upsetting or hurtful behaviour. I address the reasons why we struggle to speak up, where this pattern is coming from, what are some of the most common unhealthy coping mechanisms that we adopt and how to shift them. I share journal prompts and guidance to help you speak up, advocate for yourself, set boundaries, and communicate your needs and wants to others.
This episode explores the reasons behind why we diminish and shrink ourselves, where this behaviour pattern is coming from, how it is affecting us, and how to take the first steps towards re-wiring this pattern. I also share guidance and journal prompts, designed to help you reflect on your own tendencies of keeping yourself small and self-diminishing so you can create change.
This episode will explore the emotional discomfort, doubt and guilt that come from setting boundaries, expressing what we need and how we feel, declaring what we want, following our joy, pursuing fulfilment, and choosing what’s right for us. I share insights and practices on how to cope with the discomfort and the mix of challenging emotions that come with it. I also share journal prompts and questions for self-reflection at the end of the episode designed to help you reflect on your own emotional discomfort, where it comes from and how to address it.
In this episode you’ll learn why we feel the urge to fix and change ourselves, where it comes from, and how to shift it. I discuss the big difference between self-acceptance and self-improvement. I also share with you guidance and journal prompts, designed to help you explore your thinking and behaviour patterns so you can see yourself the through the lens of self-acceptance rather than lens of self-judgement, self-fixing and self-improvement.
In this episode you’ll learn the many shapes and forms perfectionism can take, how to identify it, where it stems from and how to overcome it. I’ll also explore how perfectionism impacts the way we see ourselves, other people, and the world as a whole. I share guidance, tips, journal prompts and questions for self-reflection to help you explore your perfectionist tendencies.
In this episode you’ll learn the main reasons why we don’t feel confident, and how to overcome them so you can build your confidence from within. I explore self-confidence from a new perspective, rooted in self-acceptance and worthiness. You’ll learn about the unhealthy societal stereotypes of confidence and how to shift them. I share guidance, tips, journal prompts and questions for self-reflection designed to help you grow your self-confidence.
In this episode you’ll learn why it’s so important to choose yourself on a daily basis and how you can do this more often. I cover some of the main reasons why we neglect ourselves and how you can overcome them. You’ll learn how to create new practices of making your needs and wellbeing a priority. I share guidance, tips, journal prompts and questions for self-reflection to help you start or deepen your practice of choosing yourself.
In this episode you’ll learn why we look for love, acceptance and validation outside of ourselves and how to find it within instead. I share powerful techniques, exercises and journal prompts to help you take the first steps. You’ll learn how to shift your story of self-lack and feel whole, how to become aware of your emotional needs and wounds, and how to explore the societal messages you’ve received growing up.
In this episode you’ll learn how to build more trust in your healing process, how to find grace, create space, build a new foundation, and be present with your healing. I’ll share with you tools and journal prompts to help you reflect on your own healing process.
In this episode you’ll learn about inner child healing work – what it is and how to practise it, how it can help you re-wire patterns, heal emotional wounds and transform your life. I share techniques, practices, and journal prompts to help you connect with your inner child and release suppressed emotions.
In this episode you’ll learn about the psychology behind insecurity – where it stems from and how it affects your relationships. I’ll share powerful techniques and practices designed to help you soothe your insecurities and build healthy relationships. You’ll learn how to develop a more secure sense of self within and outside of a relationship, and spot the patterns that no longer serve you.
In this episode you’ll learn what self-abandonment is, how to identify it and where it stems from. I explore how we unconsciously abandon ourselves and why self-abandonment is not healthy or positively serving us. I share with you tips and journal prompts to help you shift your self-abandonment patterns, and finally feel free.
In this episode you’ll learn why we feel anger, what its unique purpose is and when it becomes ineffective. I’ll explore why we often find ourselves in a repeating pattern of anger and how to healthily process anger in relationship or family dynamics. I share a powerful technique and journal prompts to help you process and regulate anger. You’ll also learn the link between anger, shame, and our childhood and societal conditioning.
In this episode you’ll learn the Psychology behind what conditioning means and how to explore it. I focus on childhood conditioning and discuss why it’s one of the biggest reasons why we struggle with self-acceptance and self-worth. I share journal prompts and questions for self-reflection to help you explore your own conditioning. You’ll also learn how to uncover your behaviour patterns, recognise your coping strategies, and how to gain clarity on what your emotional needs are.
In this episode you’ll learn where your stories of unworthiness, lack and inferiority stem from and how they are holding you back. I share journal prompts, questions for self-reflection and a 3-step technique to help you release these stories and re-write your narrative.
In this episode you’ll learn about accepting all the parts of yourself that you’ve rejected and disowned – the parts that you deem “not good enough”, unlovable, broken or unworthy. I’ll help you create awareness and understanding of them, connect with them on a deeper level and tune into what they need. This episode includes a lot of practical support – journal prompts, questions for self-reflection, techniques and guidance.
In this episode you’ll learn why you feel not good enough, where these feelings and thoughts stem from, how to uproot them and start the healing process. I’ll share with you journal prompts, questions for self-reflection and give you some guidance on how to feel whole and worthy, unconditionally accepting and loving of who you are.
In this episode you’ll learn where self-comparison stems from, why you have the tendency to compare and rate yourself to others and how to overcome it. I’ll share with you a powerful 5-step technique on how to stop comparing yourself and measuring your self-worth. I’ll also address the role of societal and childhood programming and past emotional wounds.
In this episode you’ll learn where self-judgement stems from, why you might have adopted this behaviour pattern and how to overcome it. I’ll share with you questions for self-reflection, journal prompts and effective practices on how to let go of self-judgement.
In this episode you’ll learn where people-pleasing stems from, how to explore and understand it better, and how to let go of it. I’ll share with you effective strategies that can help you such as learning how to self-validate, how to accept yourself, how to meet your own needs, and the important role of boundaries. I’ll also share with you questions for self-reflection that you can journal on and dig a little bit deeper.
This episode will guide you on your journey to cultivating more trust within. It will share with you powerful techniques that can help you grow your sense of trust, along with self-reflection prompts that you can try. It will explore trust, uncertainty, acceptance, resistance, letting go, and more.
In this episode you’ll learn what shame is and how to recognise it. How shame holds you back from unconditionally accepting yourself and prevents you from believing in your innate worthiness. The difference between shame and guilt. Tips and journal prompts on how to understand shame better and overcome it.
This episode will explore some of the main reasons why we struggle with our worthiness – shame, level of self-acceptance, perfectionism, upbringing and environment, societal norms and expectations. Throughout the episode you’ll also learn self-reflection prompts that you can try so you can fully step into your self-worth, free from anything that’s been standing in your way. You’ll also hear about my personal struggles with self-worth and how I learned to overcome them.
In this episode you’ll learn how to release your fear of failure, sharing with you practical steps and powerful techniques that you can try. You’ll learn how to recognise the thought patterns, messages and bodily signals associated with feeling the fear of failure. You’ll discover the role that your beliefs and old stories play, and how to re-frame them. You’ll hear the number one question that you need to ask yourself about “failure”. And you’ll learn the steps that you need to take in order to clear out the inner clutter and overcome your fear.
This episode will show you the practical steps you can take to unconditionally accept your emotions and feelings so you no longer feel like you have to fight or run away from them. It’ll help you learn how to identify and understand your emotions better and how to cope with them in a healthier way. It includes techniques and practices on how to let go of your self-judgement and help you understand why there are no “good” or “bad” emotions.
This episode shares 8 powerful practices and techniques that can help you reclaim your unique inner power. It also talks about how taking responsibility and ownership of your life is the key to awakening your power and how to identify any roadblocks standing in your way to awakening it. I also share journal prompts to reflect on.
This episode explores why setting boundaries is important, how they can transform your entire life, help you reclaim your inner power and bring you more ease. It features powerful self-reflection questions to ask yourself and shows you HOW to set your own healthy boundaries using a simple, but effective step-by-step process. Including tips on how to honour your boundaries and how to handle the people in your life who don’t respect your boundaries.
This episode explores what makes us hide from who we are and why we start disliking certain parts of ourselves. Why fear holds us back from living authentically and how to overcome it. It features the two important questions you need to ask yourself when you feel fear. Why you can never lose yourself and why living as your authentic self can transform your life and tips on how you can do it.
The truth about self-acceptance and how it is the pathway to loving yourself. I share what you can do today to deeply accept yourself along with self-acceptance techniques and exercises.
I share practices and tools that you can use to help you on your journey to surrender along with techniques of how to let go of control.
This episode explores the process of allowing and welcoming new beginnings. I share how you can shift the uncertainty, resistance, fears and doubts that may arise as you enter this new chapter of your life. How to move through the feeling of unknown + how I navigated the space in-between.