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Well To The Core

106: Break Free From The All-Or-Nothing Mentality

Well To The Core

Robin Long

Mental Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 794 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Well to the Core, we’re diving into a mindset that holds so many of us back: the all-or-nothing mentality. Whether it’s fitness, nutrition, or wellness goals, many women feel they have to do things perfectly or not at all—but this way of thinking only leads to guilt, shame, and burnout. Join me as we explore how to embrace progress over perfection, celebrate small wins, and show ourselves more grace along the way. I’ll also share actionable steps and real-life examples to help you take the first step toward lasting change.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • What the all-or-nothing mindset is and why it’s so harmful.

  • How small, consistent steps lead to long-term success, backed by science.

  • Practical ways to reframe your goals and shift your mindset.

  • Tips to celebrate progress, practice grace, and make movement enjoyable.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ready to unlock the secrets to living a life filled with resilience, energy, and strength?

0:12.5

I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor, founder of Lindy Well and your host of the Well to the

0:17.3

Core podcast, where we get real about women's health and tackle topics to

0:21.6

help us all age with grace and power.

0:24.2

So you can feel more connected to your body, get stronger, sleep better, and feel your best,

0:30.5

all while kicking guilt to the curb.

0:34.2

Hi friends.

0:35.1

Welcome to the podcast.

0:36.5

Today we are going to talk about breaking free from the all or nothing mentality.

0:41.3

This is a mindset that kept me stuck for years and has kept thousands of other people stuck too.

0:47.7

So we're going to talk about what it looks like to have an all or nothing mentality,

0:51.4

how it might be sneaking into your mindset without you even realizing

0:54.7

it, and how to truly switch to embracing progress over perfection so that you can stay consistent

1:00.2

and get results and make the changes that you're hoping to make as it relates to your body,

1:05.2

your health, your wellness, and your lifestyle. So let's dive in. I struggled with this for years and I can think specifically

1:13.1

of a few times where this came up very potently. First was when I was starting out in my new career.

1:20.4

This was before I was a Pilates instructor. I was working in a commercial real estate office and it was

1:26.0

my first nine to five jobs. So I was making

1:28.4

that shift into a lifestyle that had a lot less flexibility than college, right? I had to be in the

1:34.4

office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and that left little time for myself outside of work. But what I would do

1:42.0

is I would try to do my workouts after work, say, around five o'clock.

1:45.5

But if something got in the way of that, like I got off of work late or I had to go meet someone at a

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