How do I overcome perfectionism in my professional life?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Mary and addresses the question “How do I overcome perfectionism in my professional life?” Perfectionism, insecurities, and imposter syndrome can all impact our beliefs about who we are and what we can offer in our careers. During this episode, Mary shares that many of her beliefs about the need for perfection stem from her childhood. Dr. Hanks guides Mary through a discussion about childhood expectations, how to begin working through those beliefs, as...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you
0:14.9	to prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host, Dr. Julie Hanks, a therapist and coach offering online courses and programs
0:25.8	to help women all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:30.4	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:34.7	with tools to improve their lives.
0:36.8	Thanks for listening. I'm excited to
0:39.0	welcome Mary to the show today. Thanks for being on, Mary. What's your question for me?
0:45.8	I graduated from graduate school last year in the middle of a pandemic. And,
0:52.4	yeah. You graduated. Yay. Congratulations.
0:54.8	That's good.
0:56.0	It was the bright spot of 2020 for sure.
0:58.9	Yeah.
0:59.6	But I want to start building my career and I have all these ideas and things that I want to do.
1:08.1	And I'm motivated to do them. But when I try, it's such a slow process
1:15.1	and I feel such resistance for myself in terms of feeling this imposter syndrome.
1:21.2	Even though I have a graduate degree now and I'm, you know, trained and I still feel like, am I really someone who
1:29.4	can speak on this? Am I someone who can provide value to others? And are people even going to want to
1:35.1	hear what I have to say? And I find the same imposter syndrome, self-doubt narrative flowing
1:41.7	through different areas of my life. So not just professionally.
1:46.1	Not just professionally, but in other areas, I can reframe it and I can work through it.
1:50.7	Like as a mom, if I start to feel like, oh, you know, who am I to be a mom?
1:54.5	I'm not a good mom or any thoughts like that.
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