What is up, daddy Gang?
It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with call her daddy, Doctor Judy.
Welcome to call her daddy.
I'm so excited to be here.
So excited to have you, daddy Gang.
Doctor Judy is a triple board certified and licensed clinical and forensic neuropsychologist and author of the book stop self sabotage.
I'm so excited to do this episode with you because self sabotage is something a lot of people, I think, manage to do without any awareness around it.
And I think this is going to be very helpful for a lot of my listeners.
So let's get into it.
How do you define self sabotage?
So, self sabotage, put very simply, is just getting in your own way, despite your best intentions.
And this could happen in all areas of life.
It could happen with your career, happen with friendships, family relationships, romantic relationships, or your health and wellness goals.
Why is self sabotage a universal experience?
So, what I believe about self sabotage is that it's really rooted in our biology and our evolutionary instincts, but it's almost like the switch got turned around.
So essentially, all human beings have two major drives.
It's to attain rewards and to avoid threat.
That's how we survive as individuals and also as a species.
But sometimes through experiences or maybe through other types of things that have happened, whether earlier in our life or in our adult lives, or what shaped our personality.
There's a few different reasons for it, which we can get into, but sometimes what happens is that avoiding threat switch gets turned way up.