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Life Happens with Barb & Michelle

Ep. 26 - Unpacking Perfectionism

Life Happens with Barb & Michelle

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Barb and Michelle unpack their own perfectionistic tendencies and the triggers that come along with being a perfectionist. They also provide tips and tricks for how to break the perfectionism cycle and how to cultivate self-compassion.

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Episode Notes:

Triggers for a perfectionist.

  • Not wanting to let people down.
  • Having trouble delegating tasks, because you feel that you are the only person who can get it done correctly.
  • Feeling like if you take a break you’ll fall behind.
  • Not enjoying hobbies because you don’t feel you are good enough.
  • Procrastinating because you don’t feel ready.
  • Revisiting text messages repeatedly before hitting send.
  • Having a fear of failure.
  • Thinking you are only going to happy when you reach your finish line or complete your task.


Ho'oponopono for Self-forgiveness

To practice ho'oponopono, take five minutes and take a few deep breaths with your eyes closed. Then, slowly repeat these phrases to yourself.

  • I love you.
  • I’m sorry.
  • Please forgive me.
  • Thank you.
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    0:00.0

    Hi friends. Hi everyone welcome back to Barb knows best the

    0:17.5

    podcast. It's a great day to be here. It is. Hi. So excited.

    0:27.3

    Before we started talking she said, let's not talk too much about how we're doing today.

    0:33.0

    So I'm exhausted.

    0:35.0

    I don't.

    0:36.0

    We're recording this on a Friday.

    0:38.6

    And I just feel like I'm so grateful that it's

    0:40.9

    the weekend coming up.

    0:42.1

    So. T G I for us, but this will. grateful that it's the weekend coming up so

    0:49.2

    T G I for us but this will be released on a Tuesday so sorry for all of you listening on a Tuesday

    0:54.7

    Anyways I won't ask you how you're doing because you requested it. I'm doing okay, I'm tired as well.

    0:57.4

    But you know, there's a lot going on.

    0:59.2

    So I think it's normal to feel all the feelings, which is kind of what we're going to be talking about today.

    1:06.2

    But yeah.

    1:08.2

    I am looking forward to this episode, kind of a continuation of our episode last week.

    1:15.0

    Yeah, if you haven't listened to last week's episode,

    1:18.9

    go ahead and do it.

    1:20.9

    We talked a lot about self-forgiveness and what that looks like and why that's important.

    1:27.0

    And we felt that that was kind of a great lead into talking about today's topic, which is going to be about perfectionism.

    1:37.0

    And we have lots of thoughts.

    1:43.8

    I think we both have labeled ourselves and fallen into the category of perfectionists, but also

    1:50.6

    in like very different ways. And I think it's just so interesting how

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