Hi everyone. Welcome to this week's Motherkind moment. Thank you for being here. Thank you for

pressing that little play button. I really appreciate you. This is your place on a Monday for

calm connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the crazy week ahead. This week's moment is with the one

and only Mel Robbins from an episode back in December 2021. I love this clip. It's incredibly

powerful. I hope you love it too. Here it is. But it wasn't until I discovered the high five habit in April of 2020 that I came

face to face with what my actual problem was. And I think the problem that I had is the exact

same problem every single human being struggles with. And it is the habit of hating yourself, of criticizing

yourself, of focusing on everything that you're doing wrong instead of the thousand things you do

right. It's being relentless in your perfectionism, relentless in your comparison, relentless in your self-doubt.

And if you're kind of sitting there going, oh, I don't know, yeah, it's relentless.

You know how you have a friend who's texting you and you see those three little dots

and you feel the surge of, oh, my God, what are they going to say?

That's a form of self-rejection because you automatically think you're going to be in trouble.

You know how you rewrite every email?

You put emojis in there to soften it like you can't quite draw boundaries.

You're worried about how people are, what's going to happen?

Your friends go out to lunch and they forget to invite you and you suddenly think the world is,

this is all habits of

self-criticism self-rejection constantly questioning what you're doing as a mom and as busy as I was

as successful as I was as fulfilled as I was with the work that I was doing I looked in the mirror every morning and I saw a woman who had not

done enough. And I think so many of you are struggling with perfectionism because you don't believe

that you are worthy as you are. And I want to unpack something because

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