230 // 6 Signs You're Self-Sabotaging Your Mental Health
The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable
4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Hello and welcome to episode 230 of The Mindful Kind podcast.
In this episode, you'll discover 6 signs that you might be self-sabotaging your mental health. You can also hear more about self-sabotage on the following episodes:
85: Goals and overcoming self-sabotage
196: Self-care versus self-sabotage
Below are some of the signs that you might be self-sabotaging your mental health:
- You seek perfection and criticise yourself for anything less
- You deny yourself time to relax and engage in self-care
- You give up on your goals, rather than modifying them
- You don't prioritise your mental health
- You engage in unhelpful coping mechanisms, even when you know they aren't good for you
- You avoid asking for support
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Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Mindfulkind podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at |
| 0:12.0 | Rachelcable.com. |
| 0:13.8 | Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress |
| 0:19.2 | and live more mindfully in the modern world. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 230 of the Mindful Kind podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | I've been speaking to a few different people lately, both in my work and in my personal life, |
| 0:35.2 | and there's a common challenge that just keeps coming up. That challenge |
| 0:39.4 | is self-sabotage. I've talked a little bit about self-sabotage before on the podcast. On episode |
| 0:46.5 | 85 called Goals and Overcoming Self-Sabotage, I talked about two tips to overcome self-sabotage |
| 0:53.9 | so you can achieve what you really want to achieve. |
| 0:57.1 | And on episode 196 called Self-Care versus Self-Sabotage, I shared my thoughts on how to tell the difference between those two things. |
| 1:07.2 | What I'd really like to do now is talk more about the signs of self-sabotage. |
| 1:12.3 | I thought it would be helpful to dive deeper into the activities and behaviours that you might be doing, |
| 1:17.5 | either consciously or subconsciously, that actually sabotage your mental health. |
| 1:23.1 | I hope that by doing this, you might be able to identify things that you're doing that aren't helpful for your mental health and perhaps start letting go of them. |
| 1:32.2 | Sign one that yourself sabotaging your mental health is that you seek perfection and you |
| 1:36.7 | criticise yourself for anything less. When you set high standards for your goals and don't |
| 1:42.2 | reach them, you feel like you've failed. |
| 1:45.4 | You criticize your efforts rather than acknowledging your progress and you punish yourself by |
| 1:50.4 | withholding rewards, talking unkindly to yourself and ruminating over your mistakes or your flaws. |
| 1:57.7 | As a bit of a perfectionist myself, I often used to self-sabotage by mentally beating |
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