5 Signs of Self Sabotage
Marteka Swaby
Founder & Mental Health Expert | Coaching, Consulting & Healthcare Advisory
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This is one of the ways we deliberately hinder our own success and wellbeing.
It depletes drive and motivation leaving us sad, anxious, and often disconnected from significant others.
Self-sabotage refers to the intentional or unintentional actions that hinder your progress and too often prevent you from achieving your goals.
This is caused by various factors such as negative self-image, difficult childhoods, cognitive dissonance, and relationship issues.?
Self-sabotaging behaviours often manifest as procrastination, perfectionism, or self-medication, among others.?
Sabotage can negatively impact many areas of a person's life, including personal and professional success, as well as mental health.?
Self-awareness is critical to identifying and stop unhelpful patterns of behaviours that are keeping you stuck or repeating cycles you just don’t want to repeat.
If you want to move to the next level in all aspects of your life, yet something keeps getting in your way.
? Could YOU be that “something”?
Self-sabotaging behaviour looks different for everyone!?
Individuals with certain neurodivergent conditions may struggle with self-regulation and impulse control leading to behaviours that hinder their progress and prevent them from achieving their goals.?
For example, individuals with ADHD may struggle with procrastination and impulsivity, while those with autism may struggle with rigid thinking patterns and difficulty adapting to change.?
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However, it's important to note that self-sabotage can affect anyone regardless of neurodiversity, and not all neurodivergent individuals struggle with self-sabotage.?
It's also important to approach neurodiversity with a strengths-based perspective and not view it solely through the lens of deficits or challenges.
5 Signs you’re self-sabotaging
Ultimately, recognising and addressing some of these behaviours is essential to combating self-sabotaging behaviours and achieving personal and professional success.
If you can relate to these behaviours or are feeling stuck, repeating the same situations at work or are feeling disconnected in your personal relationships and feel its time to move forward. #selfsabotage?#careerdevelopment?#connection
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Health and Social Care Student at Croydon College and Public health and health promotion student at Canterbury Christchurch University
1 年Thank you Marteka and well said and explained. I appreciate what you are doing for us as black and brown women in the corporate world and beyond.
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1 年Thanks for highlighting this , its particularly higher in some women of colour from my experience in the workplace ,I see this all the time manifesting as low self esteem ,anxiety disorders and the phenomena of impostor syndrome.It can be over come and a lot of inner work to be done as well, mainly to undo the subtle but overt messages from society that tell you ,you are not good enough ! We got this !
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