Episode Details

Why do women still feel stuck after therapy, coaching, journaling, mantras, self-help books, and years of personal growth work?

In this episode of the She Talks Confidence Podcast, Tony speaks with Christine Agro, founder of Intrinsic Energy Institute and creator of Patriarchal Encodement. Together, they explore the hidden conditioning beneath self-doubt, over-giving, difficulty setting boundaries, fear of using your voice, and the struggle to trust your intuition.

Christine explains why knowing your patterns isn’t always enough to change them. She introduces the idea of patriarchal encodement as an underlying operating system that can influence confidence, self-worth, inner knowing, body image, power, and control.

The conversation also explores why women may confuse intuition with doubt, how early experiences can weaken trust in what they know, and why bringing subconscious patterns into awareness is a crucial part of healing and personal transformation.

Three Biggest Takeaways

Self-awareness is the first step, not the final step. Recognizing a repeating pattern can create change, but Christine Agro explains that you also have to work with the underlying programming, doubt, guilt, overwhelm, and fear attached to it at 11:13.

Intuition and self-doubt can feel similar. Women may know something internally, then immediately question it because past experiences taught them not to trust their own perception. Christine Agro discusses how this pattern develops and how to begin reclaiming inner knowing at 07:38.

You don’t have to give away your personal power to heal. Support, guidance, therapy, community, and skilled practitioners can help you go deeper, but the goal should be to give you tools and greater ownership of your own healing process. Christine Agro explains her approach at 17:24.

Listen to the full episode for a deeper conversation about women’s confidence, subconscious programming, patriarchal conditioning, intuition, boundaries, emotional healing, and reclaiming personal power.

Contact Christine Agro

Website: christineagro.com

Midlife Workbook: midlife.christineagro.com

Patriarchal Encodements Workbook: christineagro.com/pe-workbook

Email: christine@christineavro.com

Contact Tony

Website: theconfidencedoc.com

Email: tony@theconfidencedoc.com

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Time Stamp

00:00 Start

02:00 Why women feel stuck

06:32 Healing and reclaiming personal truth

10:17 Breaking the cycle of self-sabotage

13:02 Working on subconscious programming

16:22 Importance of support and therapy

18:52 Taking small steps for change

22:32 Understanding emotional triggers

25:49 Finding true reasons for staying