The Jealousy Signal: When Creative Jealousy Becomes a Compass
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The Jealousy Signal: When Creative Jealousy Becomes a Compass
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About this listen
It starts as heat across your face.
A flash in your chest.
That uneasy mix of anger, shame, and comparison that we don’t like to admit out loud.
We’ve all felt it: jealousy. Especially in our creative work, where someone else’s success can feel like proof we’re falling behind.
In this episode of Spiraling Forward, Monique unpacks “The Jealousy Signal”, the spiral that shows up when another creative gets what we want, and we start rewriting their story to feel better about our own.
Through a raw personal story about losing a friendship, she explores:
- Why jealousy isn’t random, it’s information pointing to what still matters to us.
- How jealousy often hides a layer of grief for the future we thought we’d have by now.
- How to transform jealousy from self-criticism into clarity and direction.
Monique also shares a simple Tiny Action you can try the next time jealousy flares up, one that helps you decode the feeling instead of drowning in it.
Because when we stop treating jealousy as proof that something’s wrong with us, we can finally start hearing what it’s been trying to say all along.
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