Ep #78: Minimum Baseline Thinking
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Listen in today to discover how you can start making the minimum baseline a consistent practice. Your inner perfectionist is likely going to kick up a fuss, objecting to the tiny commitments you start making for yourself, but I guarantee that implementing this technique will completely transform your relationship with yourself, and from there, you’ll be able to follow through on new commitments and goals from a place of true self-love.
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| 0:00.0 | When you have the thought habit of perfectionism, it's so delightful to your brain |
| 0:06.8 | to make grandiose and enormous plans to change your entire life in one fell swoop. And if that worked, I'd be all about it. But science, my love, my nerdy, |
| 0:19.9 | nerdy love. Telling yourself you're going to take a bar class daily when you have an exercise in the last year. |
| 0:27.0 | Write that quarantine novel you've been meaning to work on for a decade in the course of a week. |
| 0:32.0 | Eat only organic non-process gluten-free foods delivered to your doorstep by angels riding swans. Read self-help books every evening instead of watching TV ever. |
| 0:43.0 | Never ever drink coffee or alcohol or eat sugar |
| 0:46.0 | set amazing boundaries and uphold them 110% of the time. |
| 0:50.0 | Never worry, never feel anxious, and you are going to do it all at the same time. |
| 0:55.6 | Whoa. That is a recipe for perfectionist brain explosion, which of course is a scientific term. |
| 1:06.3 | It's just not realistic. It's a perfection of thought fantasy. It's what perfectionism does to your brain makes you think you have to create and follow through on these massive plans or you've failed in a bad way before you've even started. |
| 1:22.0 | Which of course means you're a bad person, so why even start again? |
| 1:27.0 | Today we're calling BS on that old thought error, and we're talking about the remedy, the minimum baseline. |
| 1:35.0 | Intrigued? |
| 1:37.0 | Ready to make lasting change from a place of self-love? |
| 1:41.0 | Keep listening, my sweet one. |
| 1:44.3 | It's gonna be a good one. |
| 1:45.8 | You're listening to Feminist Wellness, |
| 1:48.4 | the only podcast that combines functional medicine, |
| 1:51.4 | life coaching, and feminism to teach smart women how to |
| 1:55.0 | reclaim their power and restore their health. |
| 1:58.0 | Here's your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert, herbalist, and life coach, Victoria Albina. |
| 2:08.5 | Hello, hello my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. I'm working on a bunch of exciting projects |
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