Ep. 149 - Unpacking Perfectionism (Revisiting Ep. 26)
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week on Barb Knows Best, Barb—a lifelong perfectionist—shares her wisdom and personal journey with perfectionism. Together, Barb and Michelle explore how this mindset shows up, especially during the holidays, and how to break free from its grip.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of Barb knows best, the podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | What is it that caused me back then to feel like I had to keep striving, keep striving, keep going, |
| 0:09.2 | had to be perfect, had to get it all right. |
| 0:10.7 | And then if I didn't get it all right, I had to keep going again. |
| 0:13.9 | Because underneath it all truly was my lack of worth. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah. of worth. Hello, everyone. |
| 0:33.4 | Hi, friends. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome back to Barb knows best, the podcast. |
| 0:37.2 | It's me, Michelle, and I'm super excited to |
| 0:39.3 | introduce you all to a re-record this week, all about perfectionism. We know that this time |
| 0:45.5 | of year with the holidays can be a little tricky with lots of expectations and pressures. |
| 0:50.3 | So my mom and I thought it would be an appropriate time to revisit our chat about perfectionism and how we can overcome some of those perfectionistic tendencies and move through these holidays in this time of year and peace and with presents. |
| 1:05.0 | So give it a listen. |
| 1:06.4 | Thank you so much and we will chat with you next week. |
| 1:09.1 | Hi, everyone. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome back to Barb knows best the podcast. |
| 1:14.2 | It's a great day to be here. |
| 1:16.3 | It is. |
| 1:16.9 | Hi. |
| 1:17.9 | So excited. |
| 1:21.8 | Before we started talking, she said, let's not talk too much about how we're doing today. |
| 1:27.4 | So I'm exhausted. I don about how we're doing today. |
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