Ep. 120: How to Manage Perfectionism (with Monica Packer)

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Anxietymindfulnessmeditation, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In today’s episode, we are talking all about how to manage Perfectionism. I am so honored to have Monica Packer on the podcast as this week’s guest, as she has such an inspirational story about how she was impacted by perfectionism and what steps she is taking each day to take her life back from Perfectionism. This episode is jam packed with tools and strategies to demonstrate how to manage perfectionism in your life.

In this episode, Monica answered the below questions and delivered some incredible insight into how to manage perfectionism in areas I myself had never considered.

What is perfectionism and how has it impacted your life?
What did perfectionism look like for you personally?
We often praise people who are “perfect." What are your thoughts on this?
At what point in your life did you realize you were a perfectionist?
What did perfectionism look like for you personally?
How long had you experienced perfectionism?
What was your experience with overcoming perfectionism?
What advice do you have to those who experience perfectionism?
Were there any roadblocks/setbacks etc to this journey for you?

If you are early in the process of learning about perfectionism or you are well aware of your perfectionistic characteristics, I am sure you will benefit from this incredible interview.

For more information on Monica, visit:

Instagram: @aboutprogress

Facebook: @aboutprogress

Website: aboutprogress.com

Before we go, I want to remind you that ERP School for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is available for purchase until October 1, 2019! ERP School is a complete online course that teaches how to apply Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) to your Obsessions and Compulsions. Click HERE for more information and to purchase.

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0:00.0	This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 120.
0:10.0	Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three main goals.
0:19.0	The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to
0:22.6	help you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live
0:29.6	your life. And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big,
0:36.2	fat virtual hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy.
0:40.5	If that sounds good to you, let's go.
0:47.8	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to your anxiety toolkit.
0:53.2	My name is Kimberly Quinlan. So happy, so happy to have you here with me.
1:01.0	You guys, this is an important, exciting week. So I'm going to give you a quick announcement and then I promise you I'm going to give you really amazing interview.
1:10.8	We had the most amazing guests. I cannot
1:13.0	wait to share it with you. But first, we must get some housekeeping underway. It is Friday and we
1:21.8	have, let's see, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, We have five days left for you to sign up for
1:31.7	exposure and response prevention school. If you haven't heard about ERP school, it's exposure
1:38.4	and response prevention school, but we call it ERP school. It is an online course specifically for people who are struggling with
1:47.6	OCD or for people who have a family member with OCD or for clinicians who want to learn about
1:55.7	the gold standard treatment for OCD. It is an almost, actually, it's an over five-hour course. It is
2:04.3	delivered to you by me. You can watch it at your own pace. You can watch it in your PJs. You can watch it
2:11.0	standing on your head if you want. It doesn't matter. The point here is, is that it is available.
2:16.6	We have five more days where you can purchase it. Then we will
2:21.6	close cart and ERP school will not be available to purchase until February of 2020. For those of you who
2:32.6	have purchased it and are planning to purchase it, you'll have access
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