Ep. 26 - Unpacking Perfectionism
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K 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.
o Not wanting to let people down.
o Having trouble delegating tasks, because you feel that you are the only person who can get it done correctly.
o Feeling like if you take a break you’ll fall behind.
o Not enjoying hobbies because you don’t feel you are good enough.
o Procrastinating because you don’t feel ready.
o Revisiting text messages repeatedly before hitting send.
o Having a fear of failure.
o Thinking you are only going to happy when you reach your finish line or complete your task.
· Ho'oponopono for self-forgiveness
o To practice ho'oponopono, take five minutes and take a few deep breaths with your eyes closed.
o Then, slowly repeat these phrases to yourself.
1. I love you.
2. I’m sorry.
3. Please forgive me.
4. 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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