She Coaches Coaches · Candy Motzek | Life & Business Coach

Breaking Self-Sabotage With Faith: Ariska Scott on Becoming the Woman God Called You To Be Ep 333

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A client changes one childhood nickname to her government name and the whole identity shift starts to move.

Ariska Scott comes to the show as Coach Risk. She is a board-certified Christian mental health coach and transformational life coach who helps women break self-sabotage and step into the version of themselves that God called them to be. The host also shares a personal note. She says Ariska was one of her clients a number of months ago and describes her as practical, down to earth, and steady in her values through hard seasons. That matters. It gives the whole conversation a lived-in feel instead of a polished one. The discussion turns to self-sabotage. Ariska talks about how perfectionism can train people to trace, erase, and start over instead of trusting the first honest attempt. A classroom memory becomes a wider lesson. The point is that many adults are still carrying the pressure to make every line look exact before they let themselves move. The host reflects that pattern back. She connects a learned outer habit to the way people keep carrying it into new situations. A cake example follows. The image makes the cost of perfectionism easy to see, because a good thing can get held back simply because it does not look flawless. Ariska brings that idea into her work. Her Selfish Society and Let's Get Selfish workshops are part of a framework for inner healing before external execution. The conversation keeps coming back to awareness too. That first pillar shows up as the moment someone notices the pattern instead of treating it like fate. Near the end, the host shifts toward a practical next step. The closing invitation is gentle and direct: look at where a deeper relationship with yourself could change the way you move, and do the thing that is right for you.

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A practical conversation about self-sabotage, perfectionism, and the move from inner healing to action.

Ariska Scott's conversation centers on self-sabotage and the way perfectionism can push people to delay, erase, and start over instead of putting the work out there. It keeps circling back to a simple but useful idea: inner healing comes before external execution.

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For when you keep rewriting the plan instead of taking the first real step.

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