Stop Letting Perfectionism Control Your Life w/ Aimee Suen
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Aimee Suen is a nutritional therapy practitioner, author of the small eats blog, and one my dearest personal friends. Aimee is passionate about helping people improve their health habits and lifestyle in an ultra approachable way. Today we are discussing perfectionism, taking care of yourself, and mindfulness, to make sure you are taking care of your body in every way possible.
About Aimee Suen
After a very real quarter-life crisis, Aimee decided to stop placing her value on the things that she did, and more on who she is. She brings this life-altering realization to all of her readers and is here to help you on your health journey. By taking lots of small steps, being kind and affectionate to yourself, and accepting life's inevitable mistakes, you can work to develop tools and skills to help guide you through any situation.
If you are ready to work out at the gym of your mind, then listen in now! What do you think about Aimee's tips to help put yourself first? Let us know in the comments on the episode page!
On Today's Episode
- How to gain perspective when dealing with perfectionism
- What is mindfulness cognitive behavioral therapy and why it can beneficial
- Why you should have no shame in therapy
- Embracing change as the only constant
- Small steps you can take to be more kind to yourself
Quotes
"It became really clear to me that I had put myself last and I had put art and college and doing and achieving first. I've always been a really good doer and achiever, I haven't always been great at taking care of myself." (13:09)
"It's really nerve-wracking. And I think what's so natural to happen is your identity, without you realizing it, gets super wrapped up in 'this is who I am and this is the only thing I can be'. " (22:24)
"Paying attention to my thoughts in a very non-judgemental way has been very helpful, but 1000% did not happen overnight." (27:19)
"It's almost like a storm sometimes, these thoughts. These thoughts you get caught up in and then sometimes you realize a little too late like, oh no I'm still outside and it's raining." (30:40)
"The idea of self-compassion is just turning all of that compassion and support that you know you can very easily give to someone else, and turning that on yourself. (37:48)
Resources Mentioned In This Show
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She Thrives Radio with Taylor Gage
Self Compassion by Dr. Kristin Neff
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| 0:00.0 | This is Harder to Kill Radio, a weekly podcast where we explore what it takes to build |
| 0:06.0 | unbreakable humans through fitness, nutrition, and mindset. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Steph Godro. My mission in life is to help women build stronger bodies and resilient |
| 0:18.8 | minds so that they begin to embrace and really own their inner power. |
| 0:24.6 | The vision I have is that one day, |
| 0:26.9 | girls will grow up into strong women who appreciate their bodies, |
| 0:31.1 | know their worth, take up space, and live bigger, without the pressure of impossible to fulfill |
| 0:38.1 | bullshit societal standards. |
| 0:40.7 | That is what it means to be harder to kill. |
| 0:43.0 | This podcast is one way to explore these issues |
| 0:47.0 | and you may not always agree with the viewpoints presented here, |
| 0:50.0 | but I can guarantee one thing. It will make you think. I'm here to lead a community of |
| 0:56.6 | women and then we need you two who are ready to define what it is they truly |
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| 1:17.0 | And also be sure to tune in to my weekly companion show, Fierce Love Friday, every Friday. |
| 1:23.6 | On that note, let's do this. Well, hey there and thank you so much for tuning into episode 139 of Harder to Kill Radio. |
| 1:48.8 | This is a good one because I am welcoming a very, very good friend, a personal friend of mine and someone who is doing such great work in the world with helping people change their habits, their health habits, their lifestyle and making it super |
| 2:05.1 | approachable. My guest today is Amy Soon of Small Eats. She is amazing and |
| 2:12.0 | you're totally going to love this show. We're talking actually a lot in this |
| 2:15.8 | show about perfectionism and taking care of yourself, how to have compassion for yourself and a lot of I guess what I would call or what people |
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