Ep #51: How to Overcome Perfectionism with Failure

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Join me on the podcast this week to discover where perfectionist thinking might be holding you back and how you can begin to overcome it, using failure as a tool. I’m sharing how perfectionism kept me from going after the life I really wanted to be living, and the incredible shifts that I have created since addressing my perfectionist tendencies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 51, How to Overcome Perfectionism with Failure.
0:10.2	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look forward to.
0:24.2	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:32.7	Hey there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. So we're going to talk about failure and perfectionism
0:41.5	i'm wondering do you have something in the next chapter of life that you want to create but you keep
0:50.8	holding yourself back because you're afraid that you'll fail or you're afraid that
0:56.0	other people might judge you. You're afraid that you just won't do it perfectly. Maybe you identify
1:03.2	as a perfectionist like I did. Perfectionism has been something long before my husband died that I have noticed as a pattern in my life.
1:14.8	At a certain point, I actually thought it was a badge of honor.
1:20.9	I considered myself someone who had high standards and who upheld them and who produced high quality work. But what I've learned lately
1:31.2	is that I reached a point with some of my perfectionist patterns that it wasn't actually serving
1:37.9	the life that I want to live. It was holding me back. And if it's holding me back, it might be holding you back. So as always,
1:46.5	I'm going to go first and I'm going to figure it out for myself and then I'm going to tell you
1:51.8	how you can do it for yourself and for your life. So that's what I've been up to lately.
1:58.0	I've been working on a project where I fail on purpose. Not because I love failure,
2:05.2	not because it feels amazing, but because I know that getting comfortable with failure,
2:14.7	welcoming the unwelcome is the way to change those perfectionist patterns.
2:21.3	So in this episode of the podcast, I'm going to tell you all about my little project, what I've
2:28.1	been doing, what I learned, and how you can do it too.
2:33.4	I know how much time and energy I have spent in perfecting
2:37.9	things. I know how much time and energy I have spent in trying to avoid, heaven forbid, that someone
2:45.7	might think badly of me. I know how I have not set big goals for myself when I wasn't absolutely convinced
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