Episode 74: Personal responsibility vs. self-blame

Two weeks ago I posted a personal story of mine that walked you through the decade of my 20’s.  What I want to talk about specifically in this post is the topic of personal responsibility. I mentioned it in that post and also wrote a more specific post about that a few weeks prior. There's a common misconception around personal responsibility and that is that taking responsibility for one's actions and mistakes equals self-blame. That in order to take responsibility, we must blame ourselves for the behaviors and actions we have taken that we're not proud of and subsequently feel like shit. Bottom line: this is not true. It doesn’t have to be black or white. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices