Conversations With Cinthia

While freshly taught and recorded for this week, today’s topic is a Cinthia-Classic and relates to her reason for doing this podcast in the first place!  Cinthia has been saying, “Be your own best version,” since 2010, but what does she mean by that?  What is the difference between striving to meet lists of expectations (your own or other people’s) and being the best version of yourself? Cinthia recalled some highlights from her own story today, describing her struggle with performance-oriented behavior, which is a constant attempt to achieve a sense of personal value by showing others who you are and what you do.  This approach to life, says Cinthia, is a trap, a “spinning wheel,” an image-focused system that becomes deceptive and disillusioning, even for those others might think are winning at life.  In fact, Cinthia achieved quite a bit of success during that time; she met lots of goals and had a life that appeared triumphant in many ways.  Somehow, though, she found herself continually in the grip of stre