Take Your Own Medicine: Practicing What You Preach for Personal Growth

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On this show…we are making a commitment to take our own medicine and practice what we preach to achieve authentic personal growth. Have you ever caught yourself dishing out great advice—maybe even life-changing advice—only to realize you’re not actually taking it yourself? You’re not alone. For me, this became very real when I paused and thought, Wait a minute… am I applying the very same healing and growth tools I’ve spent years teaching others? It’s easy to guide, encourage, and support someone else’s transformation—it feels great, even! But when it comes time to turn that spotlight inward, it can get a little… uncomfortable. Personal accountability doesn’t come with a script. There’s no applause when you do the hard inner work in private. Just you, your truth, and the mirror.

In this episode, we’re digging into the idea of “taking your own medicine.” It’s not about shame—it’s about alignment. About realizing that personal growth isn’t just something we facilitate for others—it’s something we owe ourselves too. If you’ve been operating on auto-pilot, pushing others to grow while neglecting your own healing, it’s time to come home to yourself. Let’s gently peel back the layers and explore how self-honesty, ownership, and a little humility can lead to some of the most powerful transformation yet.

Let’s start by unpacking this phrase—“take your own medicine.” It’s one of those sayings we toss around casually, but it carries some weight when you really sit with it. In its simplest form, it means applying the same advice, tools, and strategies to yourself that you so easily hand out to others. It’s about walking your talk. Practicing what you preach. But more than that—it’s about integrity.

When you give others guidance on healing, setting boundaries, processing pain, or embracing change, it usually comes from a place of experience or education. But if you’re not actually applying those practices to your own life, there’s a gap—a disconnect. And that disconnect can create feelings of inauthenticity, burnout, or even imposter syndrome. You might look like you have it all together on the outside, while inside, you’re quietly struggling with the same things you’re helping others overcome.

Taking your own medicine means making time for your own emotional maintenance. It means slowing down long enough to check in and ask: Am I living in alignment with what I believe? It doesn’t require perfection—it just asks for honesty and willingness. Because growth isn’t just about knowledge—it’s about embodiment.

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CHALLENGE: Stop waiting for clarity to strike from the outside and start holding yourself accountable from the inside. Take the advice you so freely give, turn it inward, and begin showing up for your own healing with the same grace and determination you offer others.

I Know YOU Can Do It!