Lessons from a Recovering Perfectionist | Dr. Vickie Bhatia

Do The Thing, with Whole30's Melissa Urban

Melissa Urban

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Dr. Vickie Bhatia (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist and Whole30 Certified Coach who helps her patients improve mood, overcome fear and anxiety, increase self-worth and connection, and handle emotions in a healthy way. She’s also a self-proclaimed recovering perfectionist—something we have in common. I used to think about perfectionism as one of my best personality traits. So why did striving for perfection feel so lonely, painful, and exhausting? Today we discuss the dark side of perfectionism—how it impacts our fears, self-talk, careers, and relationships; the difference between striving for excellence and perfectionism; how to spot your perfectionist tendencies in the wild; and techniques to help you look beyond your drive for perfection and start showing up authentically.For show notes visit: whole30.com/podcast Continue the conversation with me @melissa_hartwig on Instagram. If you have a question for Dear Melissa or a topic idea for the show, leave me a voicemail at (321) 209-1480. Do the Thing is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Happier with Gretchen Rubin, Side Hustle School, and Happier in Hollywood. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell your friends to Do the Thing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Melissa Urban, and you're listening to Do The Thing, a
0:08.0	podcast where we explore what's been missing every time you've tried to make a change and make it stick.
0:14.0	Today my guest is Dr. Vicky Batia, a licensed clinical psychologist and Whole30 certified coach.
0:27.0	Her integrative evidence-based practice helps her patients improve mood, overcome fear and anxiety, increase self-worth in
0:34.0	connection and handle emotions in a healthy way. As a Whole 30 certified coach, she
0:39.1	helps people find lasting change with their relationship to food and address their mental health in a holistic
0:44.7	manner.
0:45.7	Today's conversation is all about perfectionism, and we have a lot of collective experience in this room.
0:53.8	Both Vicky and I identify as recovering perfectionists,
0:57.8	although we both fight this tendency regularly.
1:01.4	It was really interesting to prep for this conversation while overlaying one area in my own life where perfectionism is currently rearing its ugly head.
1:10.0	This podcast. I swear the universe and Gretchen Rubin have blessed
1:15.5	me with this podcast to show me all the holes in my own personal growth and help me
1:20.0	level up. Like you think I'm helping you here but in every darn show so far I am
1:26.7	only talking to myself. With this podcast I've had to deal with things like
1:32.2	procrastination, excessive comparison,
1:35.3	excessive like fixing, going back and editing and rewriting and listening again and again and again.
1:42.0	I don't know why it's coming up with this project where I've been able to like
1:46.0	process and deal with it in other projects like my book writing but for whatever reason this
1:50.7	podcast has triggered my perfectionism in a major way and I'm so glad
1:55.6	that Dr Batia and I were able to talk about this today. In this episode
1:59.9	Vicky and I cover the dark side of perfectionism, how it holds us back in so many areas of our life,
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