Anita Shimmins

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415 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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But Are You Happy? · How To Stop Overthinking What People Think Of You · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

It's interesting because it's connected.

Because what is ego?

It's kind of this layer, this protective layer of never wanting, never having to kind of feel that underlying defectiveness.

So it's like an amplification, it's like an overcompensation for,

feeling less than underneath.

So a bruised ego is because it's touching on something that you already believe about yourself and you don't want to face.

And so, you know, often the comment might have not even been intended that way, but your ego is bruised because there's already an internal story about this topic that you've created.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

And so, you know, if I have to face that feeling of not being good enough because of something that you said, it's incredibly painful.

So a bruised ego, it can feel actually like the same areas of the brain light up in that kind of pain compared to physical pain.

So, again, our brain is really it's hard for our brain to differentiate different types of pain.

Yeah.

Like there's still a lot we need to learn and change.

Totally.

It would be cool if it could differentiate actual from perceived threat so that you wouldn't have to.

Yeah, be so alarmed all the time or also hurt all the time.

Yeah, totally.

I think, you know, when we take things personally, it's kind of a cue, a signpost, something's going on that's important to me.

So it gives you some information that we're touching on something that is of importance.

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