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🗓️ 14 June 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This week, we look into the intricacies of perfectionism and examine the reasons why it is so common among lawyers, especially ones who are already self-critical. I explain where perfectionism comes from, how it affects all areas of our life, and why it never works. I also share my coaching strategies for overcoming it and starting to be able to accept yourself where you are.
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| 0:00.0 | If you like what you hear on this episode, you're going to want to come check out my new podcast |
| 0:04.4 | called The Unfuck Your Brain Podcast. What you're listening to right now, the lawyer's stress |
| 0:09.7 | solution, has ceased production of new episodes. But unfuck your brain is rockin' and rollin'. |
| 0:15.6 | Every week, I release a new episode of The Unfuck Your Brain Podcast, teaching you the same |
| 0:20.8 | great tools for taming your brain. But with even more applications to other areas of your life. |
| 0:26.5 | You can search for it by name. Remember, there's an asterisk instead of the you in unfuck because |
| 0:32.3 | we like to be polite. Or just click the link to it in the podcast description for this show. I'll see you |
| 0:38.2 | over there. |
| 0:47.8 | You're listening to The Lawyer's Stress Solution. The only podcast that teaches you cognitive |
| 0:52.9 | science-based techniques specifically created for lawyers. Learn how to manage your lawyer brain |
| 0:58.6 | and conquer the stress, anxiety, and overwhelm of lawyer life. Here's your host, |
| 1:04.2 | former lawyer and certified master coach, Kara Loan-Thyles. |
| 1:11.2 | Good morning lawyers. I started this morning by reading this amazing email I got from a podcast |
| 1:16.5 | listener named Sarah the other day. It was just all about how, you know, she had tried lots of |
| 1:22.3 | things. She'd been to therapy. She tried talking to other lawyers, obviously talking to mentors and |
| 1:28.0 | that the podcast and this work was really the first thing that actually made sense to her and |
| 1:33.1 | kind of resonated with her lawyer brain. That was so wonderful to hear. So thank you, Sarah, for |
| 1:38.6 | emailing me. And it's just I'm glad to know that sharing this work with all of you is really helping. |
| 1:46.3 | For me personally, I had a really similar experience. I went to therapy for years and it was |
| 1:50.5 | great and helped me have a lot of insight into the kind of patterns that I had developed. |
| 1:55.8 | But for me, it didn't really show me how to change them and that's where coaching was super, |
| 2:01.2 | super helpful. It was really having a concrete way of intervening in those patterns and changing |
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