Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the

Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at Rachelcable.com. Each week this podcast will bring

meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 282 of the Mindful Kind podcast. In this episode, we're going to dive

into some helpful strategies for letting go of mistakes. If you've noticed that you become overly critical of yourself when you

make mistakes and find it difficult to move on, then this episode is for you. As someone who can be a bit

of a perfectionist myself, I understand how difficult it can be to let go of mistakes, even the little

ones.

If I'm not careful, I can still end up kicking myself for mistakes I've made a long time

ago in the past, things no one else would probably even remember.

Like when I met my friend for a cup of coffee a few weeks ago and I thought her baby was a boy

and I said, oh, he's so cute. And my friend was like, yeah,

but she's a girl. I apologized, but it was one of those mistakes that I just found kind of a bit

harder to let go of. And a few years ago, I got really emotional and my partner, Deck and I

had a huge argument and I said some unkind things. I was kicking myself

for ages and found it particularly difficult to let go of my mistakes, so I actually went to see a

counsellor for more support. I even remember little mistakes I made when I was really young,

like when I must have been only 10 years old and I tried to make a pavlova,

which is kind of like a meringue cake with my younger sister, but we didn't beat the eggs enough

and so the pavlova was really just a bowl of eggy soup and I felt so bad because we wasted

so many eggs and I thought my parents were really disappointed in me for

not following the recipe properly.

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