Episode Highlights With KristinaHow she was born in a country that doesn’t exist anymore and was selected for the Olympic reserves multiple timesWhy too much positivity can actually be detrimental to us and how to safeguard against thisLife is like a dance and there aren’t necessarily simple answers or linear pathsHow she defines authenticity and what happens when we aren’t authentic to ourselvesThe dark side of personal growth and how the extremes can feed our insecuritiesHow to reframe and instead of thinking of slaying the dragons think of taming them and learning to ride themVulnerability has two components: the courage of acting despite the fear and the uncertainty of not knowing what will resultHow people can misuse the practice of meditation or gratitude when they start to happen on autopilotWhat emotional analgesia is and why she believes it is a big problem for usYou can’t numb emotions selectively… if you numb one, you numb the ability to feel all of themRemembering that we are allowed to feel all of our emotions and not judge them and still choose to act from our values and not our emotionsWe are not our emotions but why they are valuable feedbackSelf love is actually about the relationship with yourselfThe difference between self love and self care and why this difference is importantSelf care is skin deep and self love has more depthIs imposter syndrome actually a sign that you’ve done something good?An important question: Can you still love yourself if you fail?When we use love as currency and how to avoid thisTry an experiment of replacing judgement with curiosity in your relationship with yourselfResources We MentionBecoming Flawesome: The Key to Living an Imperfectly Authentic Life by Kristina Mand-LakhianiMindvalleyThe Best of Fyodor DostoevskyAlice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations (Lewis Carroll Classics) by Lewis Carroll