Self-Awareness Resources

Books

Blog Posts

• How to Practice Self Attunement in Daily Life?
• How to Reconnect With Yourself Through Self Attunement?
• How to Believe in Yourself?
• How to Turn Loneliness Into Self-Discovery?
• Lack Of Self Awareness: 5 Signs & 5 Tips On How To Increase Self-Awareness
• How to Build Self Attunement After Years of People Pleasing?
• How Men Can Get in Touch With Their Emotions?
• Self-Abandonment: Top 5 Ways To Get Back In Touch With Yourself

Journal Prompts

• What aspects of yourself do you find hardest to accept?
• What masks do you wear in different settings (work, family, friends)?
• What parts of yourself feel “too much” or “not enough”?
• What lies do you tell yourself to feel safer?
• What are you afraid people would think if they knew the “real” you?

Apps for Building Self-Awareness

• How We Feel
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  A free emotional awareness journal created with input from scientists, psychologists, and the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. It helps users name emotions more precisely, track patterns over time, and see connections between emotions and daily factors such as sleep, exercise, and habits.
• Daylio
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  A simple mood and activity tracker that makes it easier to identify patterns between what you do and how you feel. Over time, its charts and statistics can help reveal habits, situations, and activities that consistently improve or worsen your mood.

Self-Awareness Podcasts

• Know Your Own Psychology — Dr. Laura Williams
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  Hosted by a clinical psychologist and focused on helping listeners understand their own psychological patterns. Topics include trauma, relationships, identity, people-pleasing, emotions, beliefs, authenticity, and how past experiences shape present behavior.
• Being Well — Forrest Hanson & Dr. Rick Hanson
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  Psychology-focused discussions about behavior, relationships, beliefs, emotions, habits, and personal patterns. Many episodes encourage listeners to examine themselves more accurately rather than automatically accepting their first interpretation of a situation.
• From Both Sides of the Couch — Dr. Laurie Bruce
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  Hosted by a clinical psychologist, with episodes about self-awareness, boundaries, people-pleasing, perfectionism, relationships, burnout, emotions, and understanding why you repeatedly respond in certain ways.

Specific Self-Awareness Podcast Episodes

• Increasing Self-Awareness: The Key to Personal Growth — Being Well
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  Rick and Forrest Hanson discuss internal self-awareness, how other people experience you, why blind spots are difficult to notice, and practical questions for understanding your thoughts, emotions, motives, and behavior more clearly.
• How to Tap Into Your Self-Awareness — How to Be a Better Human with Tasha Eurich
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  Organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich explains the difference between knowing yourself internally and understanding how other people see you. She also shares exercises for identifying values and uncovering personal blind spots.

TED & TEDx Talks About Self-Awareness

• Increase Your Self-Awareness With One Simple Fix — Tasha Eurich
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  Organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich challenges common ideas about introspection and explains why asking yourself endless “why” questions does not necessarily create insight. She offers a more useful way to examine your experiences and behavior.
• The Power of Self-Awareness — William L. Sparks
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  Focuses on recognizing personal blind spots and being willing to hear difficult feedback. Sparks uses his own experience to show how people can unknowingly contribute to the exact problems they blame on others.
• You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Emotions — Your Brain Creates Them — Lisa Feldman Barrett
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  Neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how the brain constructs emotional experiences. Useful for becoming more aware of how context, interpretation, past experience, and the labels you give feelings influence what you experience.
• The Importance of Being Self Aware — Humna Raza
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  A simple introduction to understanding your habits, needs, weaknesses, desires, and patterns. The talk emphasizes that meaningful change becomes much harder when you cannot clearly identify what you are actually doing.
• Self-Awareness: The Antidote for Uncertainty — Brian Schwartz
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  Explores self-awareness as a tool for making clearer choices when circumstances are uncertain. Useful for thinking about how values, identity, and self-knowledge influence decisions.