200: Navigating Insecurities, Self-Worth And Believing In Yourself

For the 200th episode, Sabrina tackles the question she gets asked more than anything: how do you actually believe you're enough? This one breaks down where insecurity really comes from, why "just have more confidence" is bullshit advice, and what social psychologist Mark Leary's sociometer theory reveals about self esteem, rejection, and why one mean comment drowns out a hundred compliments. If you grew up with conditional love, keep dating emotionally unavailable people, or can't stop missing someone who ran hot and cold, this episode is for you. Sabrina covers how to build real self trust, the difference between anxiety and intuition, why intermittent reinforcement feels like addiction, and the five source check questions that will show you exactly whose voice has been running your internal monologue. Plus the "for now" reframe that will change how you think about being single, stuck, or starting over. Pre-order Sabrina's book coming out October 2026,⁠ "Why Am I Like This?"⁠ If you’re ready to slow down, trust your instincts, and break your old dating patterns, the Healthy Relationship Foundations Course walks you through it step-by-step ⁠HERE!⁠ If you’re serious about changing your dating patterns instead of repeating them, the Art of Going Slow course helps you unlearn urgency, regulate your nervous system, and build real connection without rushing, chasing, or abandoning yourself ⁠HERE!⁠ Get Ad free ⁠HERE!⁠ Want to work with Sabrina? ⁠HERE!⁠ Get merch for The Sabrina Zohar Show ⁠HERE!⁠ Don't forget to follow ⁠Sabrina⁠ and ⁠The Sabrina Zohar Show⁠ on Instagram and ⁠Sabrina ⁠on TikTok! Video now available on ⁠YOUTUBE!⁠ Please support our sponsors! Batch is offering 30% off sitewide. Go to hellobatch.com/SABRINA and use code SABRINA at checkout. Machine Washable Rugs, Made Better. For a limited time only, our listeners get 10% off + free shipping at tumbleliving.com/SABRINA #Tumble #ad Go to Quince.com/SABRINA for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Get 10% off your first month of Betterhelp at betterhelp.com/sabrina ============================= Chapters: 00:00 Why You Feel Like You're Not Enough 01:39 Self Worth Is Not Bubble Baths 04:40 Insecurity Is An Adaptation 06:21 Why Confidence Comes Before Action 10:36 The Sociometer Self Esteem Gauge 12:24 Why You Pick Emotionally Unavailable People 23:43 Building Self Trust In Dating 25:50 Anxiety Vs Intuition 28:40 Missing Someone Who Was Bad For You 32:17 Tool Of The Week: The Source Check Disclaimer: The Sabrina Zohar Show, formerly known as Do The Work, is not affiliated with A. Z & associates LLC in any capacity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:30Sabrina Zohar?

  Every single person who's ever told you that you're not enough, or you're too much, was just telling you about their capacity, baby, not yours. You were never too much. You were just around people who didn't have enough room for you. And now you're walking around like their opinion lives in your body like it's yours. It wasn't, and it never fucking was. I want to take a quick second to say happy 200th episode, you guys. Oh my God, thanks, Tech Guy. Ah, guys, we did it. 200, and many more. Thank you, guys, for being part of this journey, and thank you for being a very sweet addition to my life. Pun intended, maybe, but we're in this together, and I am so fucking grateful for you, guys. Thank you to 200, and let's go to 200 more.

• 1:12Sabrina Zohar?

  Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of The Sabrina Zohar Show. The 200th episode, to be exact, you guys. I am your host, Sabrina Zohar, and welcome to the show. You guys, this is a really special episode, the 200th, to be exact. I am so fucking excited. Oh, I thought a lot about what this one should be, and I kept coming back to the question I get asked more than anything. More than attachment, more than dating, more than breakups. How do I actually believe I'm enough? How do I stop feeling like I'm the problem, and how the fuck do I trust myself? So today, we're talking about where insecurity actually comes from, why just have more confidence is total bullshit advice, and what the research says about building self-worth that doesn't collapse every single fucking time someone rejects you.

• 1:57Sabrina Zohar?

  There was a tool of the week at the end, you betcha, baby. And please stick around, guys, as always, don't forget to rate and review the show, share it with a friend. It really is the only way that we can truly grow the community. The book is on pre-sale. Why am I like this, available on Amazon, guys. I'm so excited. I couldn't be more grateful and honored. If there's a photo, yay, we have the cover by now. And if not, don't worry, the cover will be there soon. So please preorder, save a screenshot. You guys are gonna get a free course as a thank you. But this is the only way to grow the book, to grow the community. And I am, again, am learning to ask for what I need from you guys. And all I ask back is, just be here. Please, please engage in the community, be part of this, and be the change you wish to see, right? As cheesy as that fucking sounds.

• 2:40Sabrina Zohar?

  But I'm just so grateful for you guys. I can't believe that we have done 200 of these, and I can't wait to see what 200 more look like. All right, babies, without further ado, let's get right on into it, shall we? And guys, I always forget to say, if you want ad-free, feel free. The ads are one of my favorite parts of the show, because they're all brands that I get to actually use and engage with, and only give you guys things that I think would make sense. And if you guys want ad-free, feel free. You could work one-on-one, join the course. We got the foundation course, we have the going slow course. Or just be here. I always like to share with you guys, because you'd be shocked how many DMs I get on the Supernas O'Hare show, you could follow that, asking if I do all of these things. So please note, I'm just letting you guys know before we get on into the episode and have some time together. And welcome to a little bit more of an intimate set. We're really trying to

• 3:23Sabrina Zohar?

  build a community of safety, of feeling like you're home with me, and we're just fucking kicking it like two friends hanging out. And the reason I chose this episode as the theme for the 200th episode is because I couldn't think of anything more that I personally struggle with than feeling like I'm enough, than feeling like there's nothing wrong with me and I'm not this damaged good. A lot of you guys are new, and a lot of you guys have been here. So let's go down and walk quickly on memory lane of, I started this show because I was a hot mess. I was the girl sleeping her way through the city. I was the girl that felt really low about herself. And as I started to do the work and really started to realize, like, I have, I am more than this, I have more to offer than this, and I deserve more than somebody who's choosing me like an option and not the fucking choice. When I shifted and really shifted the way that I saw things, my entire life started to change.

• 4:08Sabrina Zohar?

  And I started this podcast and this community because I didn't want to feel alone anymore. I didn't want you to feel alone as well, and I knew that other people out there had to feel what I was feeling. It couldn't just be me. And boy, oh, boy, was I right. And I think what I've learned along the way is like, I'm not too much. Maybe my behavior might be, maybe the anxiety that I have in moments, maybe the way that I can show up as well. Absolutely, right? Like, we can always improve and grow. But who you are fundamentally is beautiful and deserving and worthy. And baby, I need you to see that. I need you to believe that if you want to see your life change. And that is the biggest reframe that changed my fucking life. Instead of, you'll believe it when you see it. No, baby, you'll see it when you believe it.

• 4:51Sabrina Zohar?

  When you genuinely believe that you are worthy and deserving and that nothing is not for you and that everything that's in your life is meant to fucking be in your life, then your life will change. But start fucking showing up as that. Stop allowing people to waste your fucking time and then wonder why you're feeling empty and depleted after, because who's there for you? And I really wanted to talk about that self-worth component and showing up for yourself. Self-love doesn't mean bulbous and face masks. It means validating yourself. It means showing up for yourself. It means how you speak to yourself fucking matters. And if you're not showing up for you in the way that you needed someone to show up for you as a kid, then you're just perpetuating the same fucking behavior that was taught to you in childhood. And now you're doing that in your adult lives. And then you can't be shocked when you're not getting the relationships you deserve,

• 5:36Sabrina Zohar?

  because how are you showing up in order to receive that? Your insecurity is not a character flaw. It does not mean there's something wrong with you. It's an adaptation. Because somewhere along the way, someone taught you that who you are is a problem, and you believed it. It's not because you're stupid. It was because you're a fucking child, or because maybe you were in love, or because the person telling you had the authority in your life. And that belief became the lens in which you see everything through. Growing up, my father reminded us often that he loved us, but that was conditional, right? He loved you when you were behaving well. He loved you when you were doing something well. He loved you when you weren't rocking the boat. But the second you had a need or an opinion, that's it, you're too much. Here we go again. Sabrina always causing an issue.

• 6:18Sabrina Zohar?

  Then what happens? I had friends in high school and in middle school and in college and everything that came after that consistently treated me in the same fucking way, because I was in a loop. Because being myself has always been the problem. How could that suddenly now be the solution? And that was a moment I had in therapy where I had to stop and say, wait a minute. Could it have all been my fault? No, it couldn't. No matter what you've experienced in your life right now, it's not all your fault. And that's the perception of control. If I can take full accountability of it, then that means that I could have changed it. And if I could have changed it, then that means I don't have to feel in pain. If I don't have to feel in pain, then great, I won't have to be sad. But that's not how life works. You can't be in control of everything. Trust me, I wish. If that's where, then all of our lives would be different.

• 7:01Sabrina Zohar?

  You can only control how you show up and what's coming up for you and how much you allow this to impact you. But you can't control how other people, the same with the people that try to fucking change the way I speak, get bent. That's what I say consistently, no. And it took me so long. Do you know why boundaries feel so uncomfortable for you to set? It's because somewhere along the way, someone taught you that having boundaries meant that you were going to lose them, that this wasn't safe and that there's something wrong with you for saying no. And now as an adult, you get to work through that and say, I do have needs. No is a complete fucking sentence. And I'm not going to let somebody who didn't have the bandwidth and the capacity in my childhood to dictate who the fuck I am and to control the rest of my fucking life in the way that they did when I was a kid.

• 7:42Sabrina Zohar?

  So if somebody had asked how to feel self-worth in your body and not only know it intellectually, and this is the crux of so much of the meat and potatoes. You can intellectually understand, sure, I'm worthy and deserving of this. No, I'm not a child anymore. But your conscious is about three to five percent. Your subconscious is about ninety-five to ninety-eight percent of your thoughts. Ninety-seven percent if we're gonna be, argument's sake. So it lives in your nervous system. You can tell yourself that you are worthy all day, but if your body is consistently bracing for rejection, your body is going to win every fucking time. It's again, you're not lacking information. That's why when you say, why did they do this and why did they do that? Okay, the why questions are keeping you from the deeper root here. And the deeper root here is, I'm in pain. I feel like shit. I feel discarded and dismissed and I feel like I'm not good enough and that no one's ever going to choose me. That's the real fucking answer.

• 8:27Sabrina Zohar?

  And all this person was doing was slapping a Band-Aid on that because you had the perception that you were being chosen. And now that you don't have them, you're trying to ask all these why questions to avoid feeling the pain. But the reality is, you won't get over it unless you Fucking do. You will not move forward unless you allow yourself to feel it, the embodiment. The only way to embody it is to do the shit that scares you and not die. Confidence doesn't come after you act, it comes before. You don't feel confident and that's how you can suddenly do everything. When I first started, 200th episode, that's why we're talking about this. When I first started doing all this, do you think that I felt confident? Not even by a fucking long shot. Whether it would be speaking up to Ryan or ending a friendship, right? Or starting a podcast or creating a TikTok or a reel, every time I was scared.

• 9:12Sabrina Zohar?

  I used to have panic attacks and cry and freak out if I had to do something. And now I'm like, oh, girl, you've done this before. You've been there and that's how confidence works. When your body realizes a new lived experience. When you have a new experience so your nervous system can have a corrective experience. Something as simple as someone telling you, you look pretty. Maybe you've never received a compliment before. That's real. Compliments can be really hard to receive. They go against your core beliefs. So somebody telling you, wow, you're so pretty, instead of saying, thank you and sitting in that, oh, God, no, I threw this on today. That's my sister gave me this shirt. It's not mine. We always come up with something instead of it because that's safer versus saying, no, this is what I want to need.

• 9:54Sabrina Zohar?

  And then after going, oh, I didn't die. Oh, I'm still here. Oh, I'm fine. I'm okay. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong. I'm not unsafe just because I have a, I speak up or have a need. That is how you will change. This episode is brought to you by Batch. I don't know about you guys, but there's something that happens, especially to women. When you get into your 30s, your 40s, where you start to feel kind of off. It's not like you're sick. It's not a diagnosable thing. It's just you don't necessarily feel yourself. And you're managing everything for everyone, right? Whether that be your kids, your career, your relationships, your own health. And somewhere in all of that, you quietly start falling apart. And the worst part is when you finally bring it up to your doctor, what's the response? Like, try exercise? And that was what they always did to me. Like, oh, are you going through something? Why don't you just go work out?

• 10:38Sabrina Zohar?

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• 11:21Sabrina Zohar?

  Go to hellobatch.com/sabrina and use the code Sabrina at checkout. Do you want to know how I stopped dating emotionally unavailable people? I stopped being scared of losing those emotional unavailable people. I stopped being scared of watering myself down because I was more scared of losing myself than I was ever fucking scared of them. And do you know how that happened? Because I lost so much. And after I lost so much, I realized I was still fucking here and I had another day. And if I have another day, that means I get another choice. And if I get another choice, that means I can change the fucking future. I can't change the past, but I can change where I'm going. And that's the only control I actually have. So let's get into a study, my babies. So Mark Leary is a social psychologist and he proposed that your self-esteem is not a fixed trait. It's a gauge, like a fuel gauge in your car. So it monitors how accepted or rejected you are by the people around you.

• 12:06Sabrina Zohar?

  Acceptance, it goes up. Duh, yay, they like me, right? It's a, they like me, they really like me. And then rejection, it drops. And rejection lowers self-esteem more than acceptance raises it. So your gauge is more sensitive to the bad than the good. And so if you grew up in a house where rejection was constant, where love was conditional, your gauge was calibrated to expect rejection everywhere. You're not insecure because something is wrong with you, baby. Your gauge was set by people who kept rejecting you. I understand that because my gauge even will laugh. Rhinol joke when somebody says something of like, oh, I love the podcast. Oh, my God, I'm obsessed with it. And Rhinol laugh and go, her core beliefs won't accept that. Because my social gauge, when I see the negative, I'm like, see, there it is. I knew it. I knew it. That's what I believe about myself. You saw it too.

• 12:51Sabrina Zohar?

  Versus, you're amazing and I love you and all this and you're like, yeah, yeah, whatever. That's fine. It's cool. It's whatever. It's like, yeah, sure, whatever. I'm just here. Because that goes against how we genuinely believe. And so don't be shocked when getting rejected hits the gauge a lot more than getting accepted. And that's also why getting accepted can feel anticlimactic. That's why 100 people can tell you you're amazing and one person says something shitty and that's the one you believe. Your sociometer weighs rejection more heavily than acceptance. And that's not a problem about you, baby. That's a calibration issue. So someone had asked, how to not be insecure when every man I've cared about said, I'm not good enough. The harsh reality is that you went for them because they activated that wound. Every man reinforced the original calibration. Every rejection

• 13:35Sabrina Zohar?

  didn't just hurt in the moment. It confirmed the belief that was already there. See, they figured it out too. There's something wrong with me. But there isn't. Your gauge just keeps getting data that matches the original setting and the work isn't convincing yourself that you're enough. It's to recalibrate the gauge by surrounding yourself with people who give it different data. And also, if you guys are wondering, wait a minute, how are we writing into the show? How am I getting my questions at the Sabrina Zohar Show? I do question boxes on Insta. Go follow along. There's also TikTok if you want, sabrina.zohar or on our YouTube right here, sabrina underscore zohar. I am everywhere, baby. So if you guys want to integrate and actually be part of the community, you can either write it into in the trenches at sabrina zohar.com or you can write it into the question boxes when I do them. So that's the fun of being part of the community is I get to be able to help

• 14:18Sabrina Zohar?

  you guys in a different way, which is also why I'm actually building a membership out so that we get some community together, that you guys can be part of something every month. So stay tuned. It's on its way. But for now, thank you for being here on the podcast and thanks for pre-ordering my book. It's called Why Am I Like This? You guys are going to hear about it so much, you're going to fucking hit me over the head with it when it comes out. I can't wait. Okay, let's get back to it. My shameless plug. How do you stop letting what they think about who you are get to you? So an example was my ex kept calling me toxic. The thing is that your behavior might have been toxic and that's okay. We want to be able to separate between was it my behavior? Because maybe there is some truth there. Maybe they were right, saying, "You fucking asked to have my location. Every time I said something, you screamed at me. You didn't allow me to speak."

• 15:02Sabrina Zohar?

  Maybe there is validity to what they're saying, that there are traits. Now, the other side of the coin is that we have to look and say, "Am I taking accountability and ownership of what's mine to take?" If they're calling you toxic because you asked to have a conversation with them, right, then that sounds like deflection, that they don't actually want to take any ownerships, and it's not actually about you. But if you can stop and say, "Oh, yeah, I text them 173 times. Maybe that was a little toxic." Then that's you just taking accountability and ownership of your life in the way that you can, right? Of saying, "Yeah, that is my part in it, and that's okay." And your sociometer treats their opinion as data. It doesn't know the difference between someone who knows you deeply and someone projecting their shit. So it just registers, "They devalued me." And your self-esteem drops.

• 15:44Sabrina Zohar?

  So the work is learning to filter who's opinion gets to calibrate your gauge. And again, we do all of this in the Healthy Dating Foundation course to help you understand your North Star. So if you guys want more, everything's gonna be in the link in bio, in the show notes. But it's also about knowing, right? It's the same thing. You guys will ask me all the time, like, "How do you have your self-esteem? How do you have the confidence? Because I've stood up enough to bullies." Yeah, I've lost when I've told people, like, "If you don't like this, then find another show." And they attack me, and you're like, "Okay, so that's one person I don't get to keep." But then there's 100 people that validate and accept me for who I am. So then I'm holding on to somebody that doesn't? Hmm, no wonder my self-esteem is taking a hit. All right, and I get it. The standard advice for insecurity is, "Build your self-esteem. Love yourself more. Affirm yourself." And there's a problem with that that nobody talks about.

• 16:29Sabrina Zohar?

  So, Neff and Vonck did a study in 2009, that's a mouthful. Over 2,000 participants comparing self-esteem and self-compassion. Self-esteem is contingent. It goes up when things go well and comes crashing down when they don't. Only as stable as your last success. Okay, that I can understand, right? Self-compassion, though, predicted more stable feelings of self-worth that were less contingent on outcomes. Stronger negative predictor of social comparison, self-rumination, and public self-consciousness. And self-esteem was positively associated with narcissism. Self-compassion was not at all. So the things we've all been chasing, right? Higher self-esteem is unstable by design because it fluctuates based by whether people approve of you. But self-compassion, being kind to yourself in the mess, recognizing that you're a human

• 17:14Sabrina Zohar?

  and letting painful shit pass without becoming it, that predicts resilience. That doesn't collapse when someone rejects you. And that's why I always say we gotta look at how we're fucking talking to ourselves. Are you talking to yourself in the same way people talked to you as a kid? Are you putting yourself down, telling yourself that you're an idiot, calling yourself names, and then you fucking wonder why you're attracting people that do the same thing, that don't respect you, that don't care about you, because look at how you're showing up? And if you're gonna sit there and talk shit to you, how the fuck are you gonna accept anything different? It's gonna be really tough, because you don't believe that you're worthy and deserving that on a fundamental core level. If you did, you wouldn't talk to yourself like that. Would you talk to your friend like that? Probably not. If you went to a friend and told them that they were fucking stupid, and they're an idiot,

• 17:57Sabrina Zohar?

  and they can't do anything right, do you think they'd still wanna be friends with you? Doubtful, so then why the fuck are you talking to yourself like that? Shame? I don't think it has to be erased from society, but I think we need to stop shaming ourselves. You've been doing that enough. You've been shaming yourself for so fucking long, you don't even know which way is up and down. So instead of showing yourself all the shame and blame, which you can't fucking control, try showing yourself an iota of compassion and start to see how your life changes, and start to see how sick and tired you get of the people that are talking to you in any other fucking way. This episode is brought to you by Tumble. Guys, when I had Clemmie, it was so hard for me to find a rug that was not gonna be an issue for having a dog, whether that be spill-resistant, and it was either I picked the oversized rug that looked amazing but was constantly worried that it was gonna be

• 18:39Sabrina Zohar?

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• 19:21Sabrina Zohar?

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• 20:05Sabrina Zohar?

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• 21:07Sabrina Zohar?

  So someone asked, "How can I differ between what a real core belief is and what is actually real?" So, a core belief feels like a fact. That's what makes it dangerous. "I'm not enough" doesn't feel like a belief, it feels like the truth. The way you know it's a belief and not reality, you learned it. It has an origin story. You can trace it back. Facts don't have origin stories, right? Your name is a fact. "I'm unlovable" is a belief someone gave you that you never returned. So we want to start to look, again, where did I learn this from? "Oh, in school, I was always told that I wasn't pretty. Nobody ever liked me. Nobody picked me." Oh, okay, yeah, I learned that in childhood, that I wasn't good enough, that nobody ever was going to. Okay, so then no wonder I'm choosing that in my adult life. So a core belief is something that you believe as fact. You know what my core

• 21:51Sabrina Zohar?

  belief has been? And it still rears its ugly head. Everyone else can have it but me. So for me, it was the healthy relationship. Everyone else can have the happy and healthy relationship but me. With my career, no, everybody else gets success, not me. It was always that other people were going to get it, but not Zohar. Zohar doesn't get it. Zohar doesn't receive that. Zohar just takes what she can get. She has to earn for it and work for it. I was taught that. Because if maybe I had had two caregivers that taught me that who I am was enough, and that I don't have to earn it, and I don't have to work for it, and I don't have to do anything, I just have to show up and I receive, I'd probably be in a different place right now. Who knows? I may not have met you guys, right? Isn't that the harsh reality? But what I've learned in 200 episodes of doing this is, the stuff that you think is gonna do well probably won't, and the stuff that you don't think

• 22:36Sabrina Zohar?

  is gonna do well probably will. And that I've tried, I'll be honest with you guys, in the 200 episodes, I've cried a lot. Not just with you. I have sat down for hours trying to say, "But I need to make it what they want, and how are they gonna like it? And will they? And will they?" And I totally fucking lost myself. I lost what made this so fun and special was being me. Now, of course, you know what my other core belief was? "People don't come for me." And was that validated? Yeah, kind of, right? When I had a show with a name that people wanted to identify with, "I'm doing the work," versus, "I don't know who's super in this hour, I just fuck her." I've had people that'll be flippant and walk off because I say something that they don't like, and all of a sudden they're fucking losing their shit on me. They don't support me. They don't actually show up when I need them. They don't even engage in any of my fucking content, but

• 23:19Sabrina Zohar?

  they're upset that I don't make what they want. I've gone through that. It's the same in dating. When you date people that it's, nothing's ever good enough, and you feel like you're always performing, and then you feel depleted at the end of it. And now it's about saying, "I'd rather be alone than in bad company." "I'd rather find, if that means that I have a slower success, or I don't have the relationship, or I don't have the..." "That's okay. I'm okay with being where I'm at, because that means I could be who I am, without having to be somebody different." So honey, I was talking to my client this morning, and he said, "People call me intimidating." And he said, "Do you think I should change the way I speak? Should I maybe not talk about who I am and what I've accomplished in my life to not make them feel intimidated?" And I chuckled, and I said, "But do you want to be with somebody who you can't be yourself around? I said, "Why do you have to water yourself down

• 24:03Sabrina Zohar?

  in order for them to feel more comfortable?" And he laughed, and he was like, "You're right." He's like, "I've been with so many people that just like me because of who I am, or because of what I've accomplished, but not necessarily who I am." And it's like, "Then show that. Show that." Because, you know, even with me, I get worried sometimes that Ryan's gonna leave me. Not because, "Oh, there's something wrong with me." Because I'm very emotional, and I have high highs and low lows, and I have times where I could cry hysterically, and then I have other moments where I feel really confident and secure with myself. And of course, I'm thinking, "I'm too much." No one's ever gonna want to deal with that, because I don't want to deal with that. I struggle to deal with it. I struggle to hold space for myself. I struggle to have compassion for the human that I am.

• 24:46Sabrina Zohar?

  I struggle to believe that this is normal, and that other people do this too. Because for so long, I was taught that it wasn't. That me having emotions isn't safe, and that somebody's always gonna leave because I'm annoying them with who I am. And so I've had to work on that, saying, "You're allowed to take up space, and if that means that person leaves, then they weren't meant to be in your life then. And if they stay, then that person probably really fucking loves you." "I'm not gonna leave you." Thanks, babe. I don't know if any of you guys heard that, but you do deserve somebody that will see the mess and still love the mess, and see the beauty and still love the beauty, and

• 25:28Sabrina Zohar?

  see the composed parts and the breaking apart parts, and still love you. And that's why I show you guys so much of me, not just physically, but that's why I show you guys so many different parts of me. And, and some of you could say, "I don't want to see it." And that's okay. You don't have to. But I still get to show it, even if somebody is not ready to see it. Somebody asked how to build trust that you'll be able to pick the right partner in dating. How do you trust yourself? Well, baby, you build it the same way you build trust with another person incrementally, through evidence. I've talked to you guys about the guy who changed the way I dated. Would you think when I kicked him out of the house, I knew what was going to happen? No, in full transparency, I was hoping he was going to turn around and say, "I made a mistake." I was hoping that he was going to come with this grandiosity and say, "I fucked up and I can't let you go." And instead, I never heard from him again. Instead, when

• 26:13Sabrina Zohar?

  I reached out to him nine months later to try to see if anything changed, it hadn't. And I'm so grateful I didn't go for it, because what changed was me. What changed was what I was willing to allow, and what changed was how I was showing up, not the other person. And what changed was showing myself that, see, you could do hard things and you're still okay, because then I met Ryan two months later. And I am so grateful I didn't waste my fucking time with somebody who didn't even call me to let me know that they were in my goddamn city. Make a small promise to yourself and keep it. Listen to your gut once and see what happens. Set a boundary. Say no and don't abandon it. Each time you follow through, your internal trust account builds. You don't trust yourself because you decided to. You trust yourself because you have receipts. And that's, again, part of that corrective experience. The anxiety versus intuition. Is this my anxiety? It usually comes with a body sensation

• 26:57Sabrina Zohar?

  and a narrative and the tears and this anxiety, this urgency, whereas the intuition, pretty calming. It's usually just more relaxed feeling of, "I don't know, that just doesn't feel right. I don't know, that's not sitting well with me." Okay, then follow that. You don't have to have all the answers. And we have an entire episode, "Is it Anxiety Intuition?" So feel free, I don't know the exact number, but feel free to go back and listen. But if we're trying to trust yourself, then that means that we have to look at, what does it mean when you do? To try to find corrective experiences. How did that feel in your body when you were like, "Oh, I did pick up on that correctly"? Right? Ryan and I had had that. We got fucked over from something. And I look back and I was like, so that's what it felt like at the moment to go, no, it didn't feel right. And we had a conversation about it. And inside I've shared even with the guy

• 27:42Sabrina Zohar?

  that I told you guys about, the conventionally handsome guy that I changed the way I dated, when my best friend said, either we're getting played or this is the love of your life. And I said, I have a feeling we're getting played. Because what I realized in that moment was, it wasn't this like, highly anxious energy. It was actually a calming feeling of, this just doesn't feel like how it's supposed to feel. And I just knew it. And it wasn't because, oh, self fulfilling prophecy, yeah, in the sense where he had showed me that from the beginning, the way that he had approached me, the way that he was coming after me, the way that all of this had happened, it just didn't feel authentic, it didn't feel sustainable. And I was right. And that's what I mean by, ah, okay, there were signs, so trust that. Start to learn, when have you been right? Not, oh, see, I told you, I'm always right, my gut always knows. It's like, yeah, trail it back. Trail it back to date

• 28:25Sabrina Zohar?

  one, when you picked up on something that you overlooked, and then come back and tell me that you don't trust yourself. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Guys, did you know that financial stress actually affects far more than your bank accounts? It can take a serious toll on your mental health and relationships. This was a really interesting study. Eighty-eight percent of Americans feel some form of financial stress at the start of 2026. You gotta remember, baby, money worries bring anxiety, sleep disruption, and even depression. And that can be really, really hard in a relationship. I mean, I know with me and Ryan, I technically am the breadwinner, right? He works for my company, and so everything starts and stops with me, and that can feel really, really heavy at times. And sometimes I will feel overwhelmed, I'll cry, and having an outlet, especially an amazing therapist that you can

• 29:08Sabrina Zohar?

  work through this with, is so important, so that doesn't necessarily always impact your relationship. And that's why I love BetterHelp, because they have quality therapists. So BetterHelp therapists work according to a strict code of conduct and are fully licensed in the US, and they have a therapist match commitment. So they do all the matching for you, and if you're not happy with your therapist, baby, you just press new therapist, and they will help you match somebody instantly. Guys, I want you to remember this. You deserve to be happy and healthy, and have an amazing relationship with money, and I just need you to believe that, baby. So when life feels overwhelming, therapy can help. Sign up and get 10% off at betterhelp.com. That's better H E L P dot com slash Sabrina. We have a question. This one I want to celebrate.

• 29:51Sabrina Zohar?

  Due to dating as a 32 year old virgin with loose skin post 165 pound weight loss. Can we just fucking talk about the fact that you just did one of the hardest things a human being can do? You lost 165 motherfucking pounds. Kudos all day. I'm clapping, I'm snapping, I'm doing all the things. That takes discipline. Most people will never fucking understand. And baby, the right person is going to see the loose skin and know what it represents. Someone decided to change their fucking life and actually did it. That's the flex. Let's reframe. Sure, I might have anxiety. You know what I also have? A ton of fucking lived experiences that I was, that made me who I am. I've got a lot of stories and I've got a lot of humor because that's what trauma will do for you. But I've got a lot more to offer than just the circumstance.

• 30:36Sabrina Zohar?

  I have the person that created the circumstance, that created this version of me that survived it all. And so what you do is you don't fucking apologize for who you are. Sure, this is who I am. You don't like it? If I'm too much, go find less. If they can't understand what it takes for you to be so disciplined to do that and show up for yourself every day, then fuck them if all they want is just a pretty package without realizing how long it takes to get that.

• 31:01Sabrina Zohar?

  How do I stop missing someone who was so bad for me, who was really loving and then went cold? You're not missing them. You're missing the version of them that made you feel okay about yourself. The hot and cold is intermittent reinforcement. And sometimes they made you feel valuable, sometimes worthless. Intermittent reinforcement is the most addictive fucking pattern there is. And it doesn't mean that you're weak for missing them. It means that your brain got hooked on inconsistency and now you get to decide what it is that you're worthy and deserving of and how much more of this you're going to fucking allow. And we'll go one more question. How to rewire thoughts that it will never happen for me? For now, it hasn't happened for you, baby. That doesn't mean it won't. Add, like Mama Zohar always said, for now, at the end of every sentence, that feels permanent. For now, I'm single. For now, it's hard. For now, it gives your brain permission to believe things can change.

• 31:45Sabrina Zohar?

  Can I just show you? Where did I start? Where I started was in my kitchen with a phallic ass looking mic, no money at all. I didn't even know if I was going to be able to pay rent that month. And a dream and a goal. And I remember I launched the podcast and I had somebody reach out and say, I wanted to work with you. And I had three people book with me in the first month and I called my mom and I said,

• 32:09Sabrina Zohar?

  If I continue at this rate, I could pay rent next month. And I booked out the next month. And the show is growing. Because I believed I could do it. And along the way, I lost that belief. Because someone took something from me. Out of I couldn't control.

• 32:31Sabrina Zohar?

  But when I look at how far I've come. To now having a custom studio in my home. The most incredible community, a book coming out. The life I've always dreamt of is here. Are you gonna be ready for it when you receive it? Just because at one time, it's not there. Doesn't mean it always will not be. Just because right now, you don't have the love of your life, or the career that you want, or the opportunities, doesn't mean you never will. You're a human, and you're allowed to be sad. You're allowed to be scared. But add "for now" at the end of every fucking sentence. Because for now, you don't have it. But that doesn't mean you always won't. So get ready, baby. Because just like you exist, someone out there amazing is ready, and willing, and able to be the partner that you need. You just haven't fucking met them yet.

• 33:16Sabrina Zohar?

  Going down memory lane can feel painful sometimes. But it's worth it. And you know what? I've also had to realize, if I don't gain the audience, or if I lose people, or if they come and they go. That's okay. I gotta keep showing up as me, because that's how we're gonna have some fucking fun. Is when I fall back in love with what I'm doing. And then we can all fall back in love with what we're doing. Because we feed off of each other. So let's go into the tool of the week. You guys have earned it. You've watched me cry now, twice! Oi, okay. So the source check. Five questions, and I want you to answer honestly. The first one. When you hear "you're not enough," whose voice is that? For me, it was my dad. And sometimes my sister. Not the general feeling, the actual voice. Name them. That belief has a source, and it's not fucking you. The second thing.

• 34:01Sabrina Zohar?

  When was the last time you kept a promise to yourself, not to someone else, to you? Why do you think now? I pay, I have a trainer, and I have Pilates. You know why I do that? So my ass goes. Because it hurts when I miss it, and I'm like, oh! I'm keeping a promise to myself, because I'm saying I'm worthy and deserving of that. That's why I male prep. That's why I do all of these things, so that when I wake up, I take care of myself. Because I'm holding a promise to myself that I'm gonna be there for me, so that I actually need to fucking be there for me. Next one. Whose opinion is currently calibrating your self-worth gauge? And have they earned that access? Again, for me, it was my parents for a long time. And the next, what would you say to your best friend if they told you what you're telling yourself right now? Would you, again, would you tell your best friend that they're fucking stupid and they're moron? Maybe if they genuinely, you'd be like, hey, man, I don't know if that was the best decision. But I don't think you'd have a friend if you talked to them like that.

• 34:46Sabrina Zohar?

  So say that to yourself instead. And the last thing, what's one thing you've survived that you didn't think you could? That's your evidence. That's your evidence. I'll tell you right now, I never thought I was gonna survive Clem's death. I even still, right before I recorded, a photo of him came up and I cried. But I did, I survived it. I made it through the other side. I never thought I was gonna survive a lot of these hard days, but you did, because we can do hard things and you get to choose your fucking hard. And I want you to share some of these in the comments, because I bet a lot of you are gonna realize it's the same two or three things, running your entire fucking monologue, and people. And these people don't live in your house anymore, so it's time to change the goddamn channel, baby. 200 episodes, and if I've learned anything, it's that there was never anything wrong with me. Your self-worth is a gauge, and it was calibrated by people who kept giving you bad data.

• 35:31Sabrina Zohar?

  And you don't need to, like, higher self-esteem, it's not this arbitrary thing. You need a different relationship with yourself. One that doesn't collapse every time someone disappoints you. You don't need to become someone new, you need to stop abandoning the person you already are. That's the reality of it. That's why I always say, what's the, what's a part of yourself that you don't think is lovable? That's who needs you the most. I love you guys. Thank you for everything. 200, 200, and many more. Let's go, guys. Don't forget to rate and review the show, share it with a friend. Everything is at sabrina zohar.com. Please don't forget to preorder the book, it's available on Amazon. It's called Why Am I Like This? By Sabrina Zohar, in case you're not sure who it's by. I'm so honored. Don't forget to save a screenshot, we'll let you guys know, we're gonna send out emails

• 36:16Sabrina Zohar?

  and I'll be announcing it up the wazoo, that you'll get your free course as a thank you. Because pre-orders, true, that's why I'm saying, that's how I'll land on the New York Times list, that's how I'll get into Walmart and to Target. I need your help. I need your help to please, please, buy it for you, your friend, your mama, your daddy, anybody that you think will benefit from understanding their patterns more. And thank you guys for being here, thank you for rating, reviewing, commenting, engaging, and being part of what makes my day bright. Because it's you guys, and without you, I don't know where I'd be. All right, babies, until next time.

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