UFYB 283: Wellness Perfectionism
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Perfectionism is everywhere, it’s sneaky. And this week I want to talk about a little thing I like to call wellness perfectionism. No matter what tips, tools, and tricks we know for regulating our minds (and nervous systems) there’s no way for us to avoid having the human experience. This week I discuss what wellness perfectionism is, how you can see it showing up in your life, and how not to use wellness against yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, |
| 0:14.0 | and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your |
| 0:19.3 | host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile. |
| 0:27.3 | All right, y'all, if I know you, my chickens, and I feel like I do. I feel like I do know you. |
| 0:35.8 | At least I know some of you. Some of you I know personally, but a lot of you I know your brains. |
| 0:40.7 | And one of the things that I think so many of us struggle with is second guessing ourselves. I see |
| 0:49.2 | this all the time. It comes up in my own brain. I cannot tell you how many times I have either |
| 0:56.2 | made a decision and then wanted to like pull my friends and colleagues to see if they thought it |
| 1:01.1 | was the right decision. Or I've been trying to make a decision and I have wanted to post a 3,000 |
| 1:09.1 | word essay on this minor decision in my life in my masterminds life to get all of their opinions. |
| 1:16.3 | Or how often I just second guess my own perception of reality. It doesn't have to be related to a |
| 1:23.1 | decision at all. And I just second guess my responses and how I'm acting and what I'm thinking and |
| 1:28.4 | what I'm feeling. And if I can make the choices I want to make and it's so incessant when you are |
| 1:33.9 | socialized as a woman to second guess yourself and to think that you can't be trusted in kind of |
| 1:41.2 | any area of your life. And that you need to crowdsource other people's opinions and you still never |
| 1:46.1 | feel certain. And it is such a waste of time and energy. And when I think about the resource of all |
| 1:52.8 | of our time and energy and what we could be spending it on. And then I think about what a fucking |
| 1:58.3 | waste it is that we spend it second guessing ourselves constantly. I just can't tolerate that |
| 2:04.0 | for us or for the world. So I'm going to be teaching a brand new challenge called the stop second |
| 2:10.9 | guessing yourself challenge. It's not ready for sign up yet. But if you want to be the first to be |
| 2:16.7 | able to sign up, you need to get on the wait list so that you get the first shot at signing up |
| 2:22.2 | for this. I think there is like lots of sense to you know considering different opinions and |
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