When Taking A Few Deep Breaths Isn't Enough

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"Your inner experience is always correct and valid. It's crucial to find support that acknowledges and works with your unique inner world as a perfectionist."-CLG episode 192 Perfectionism Rewired

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

EPSISODE 192 TIMESTAMPS:

01:13-Struggling with perfectionism? It’s not You. It’s…

02:18-Playing the wait and see strategy out until a crisis

03:27-How the Perfectionist Playbooks come in clutch

05:00-When You Have Nobody To Turn To or Who Understands

06:15-Inner Experience of Being A Perfectionist

07:30-How complying with the rules to earn the reward, screws over perfectionists

08:16-When Talk Therapy Makes Perfectionism Worse (IRL client example)

09:54-Why Compliance Driven Support DOES NOT work for perfectionists

10:26-When Deep Breathing Just Isn’t Cutting It. This.is.WHY

11:12-Dangers of hierarchical support like doctor + patient

12:54-Confused bc taking deep breaths is supposed to be relaxing

13:18-What lies beneath the surface of perfectionism is what’s controlling it

13:30-Why it feels like you're playing a game of whack a mole

14:00-How Perfectionistic Habits are like the Golden Gate Bridge

15:02-Love Researching, learning or self-diagnose? LISTEN UP

15:44-If deep breathing is not enough, what is?

16:30-The one thing that makes changes easy to do

17:21-Surprising changes for Carly + her young kids with Interoceptive Awareness

18:14-Practical Interoception tools so you can stay regulated even during hectic days

19:23-Why Interoception Works for Perfectionism

20:00-Secret Way Human Bodies decide how anxious or calm to be

21:05-Sneak Preview of next episode

HIGHLY CREDIBLE SOURCES CITED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Adrián Yoris, Esteves, S., Couto, B., Melloni, M., Kichic, R., Cetkovich, M., … Sedeño, L. (2015). The roles of interoceptive sensitivity and metacognitive interoception in panic. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12993-015-0058-8
• Asena Boyadzhieva, & Ezgi Kayhan. (2021). Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.647579
• ‌Duquette, P., & Ainley, V. (2019). Working With the Predictable Life of Patients: The Importance of “Mentalizing Interoception” to Meaningful Change in Psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02173
• Price, C., & Hooven, C. (2018). Interoceptive Awareness Skills for Emotion Regulation: Theory and Approach of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT). Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00798
• Zoellner, L. A., & Craske, M. G. (1999). Interoceptive Accuracy and Panic. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37(12), 1141–1158. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0005-7967(98)00202-2

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