Change Your Story Podcast
Change Your Story Podcast
Hannah Dawson
Part 1: Self-Love Begins With Self-Awareness
28 minutes Posted Feb 10, 2026 at 9:44 am.
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Self-love has been turned into confidence, motivation, discipline, and aesthetics — but that's not where it actually begins.

In Season 2 Part 1 of the Self-Love Series, we're talking about the most important relationship you'll ever have: the relationship you have with yourself.

Most of us were never taught how to build that relationship.
So we learned how to perform instead of how to be present.
How to please instead of how to listen.
How to look outward instead of inward.

In this episode, Hannah breaks down:

  • what self-relationship really is

  • why self-love often feels uncomfortable

  • how external validation, imitation, and comparison disconnect us from ourselves

  • why awareness (not fixing) is the first step to transformation

  • how pressure reveals the true relationship you have with yourself

This episode isn't about changing anything yet.

It's about seeing yourself — with compassion, honesty, and grace.

Because awareness is where self-love begins.

🎧 Homework: For the next 24 hours, simply notice how you relate to yourself when life applies pressure — without judgment, just curiosity.

This is the start of the relationship.

 

You'll also hear about:

If you've "started over" a hundred times — you're not broken.
You were just never taught how to stay.

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To your daily dose of empowerment,
Hannah Dawson 💛
Fit Mind. Fit Body. Fit Life.