When You're Mortified You Made SUCH A Careless Mistake

If you find yourself dwelling on a *mistake* you made for weeks, months (years!) or can’t stop feeling embarrassed/disappointed in yourself for “messing up” THIS episode will help you move forward and playfully break free from your own 'mistake prisons'

Take a rare real-time journey inside the mind of a perfectionist (CLG) who JUST made a very public (very careless) mistake and explore the intricacies of dealing with rejection sensitivity, taking decisive uncomfy action and what all-or-nothing thinking has to do with it.

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EPSISODE 191 TIMESTAMPS:

00:00-Introduction to Perfectionism Rewired

01:49-When you make gorgeous plans, but you don't follow through on them

03:03-Exploring Rejection Sensitivity in Perfectionists

03:17-CLG's mistake very publicly on the podcast

04:19-Inside the all or nothing thinking going on in CLG's head

05:00-Understanding how to navigate the complexities of your perfectionism

06:17-Have self-awareness around perfectionistic tendencies but stuck in indecision

06:38-Paper thinking = flushing the toilet in your head

07:15-You think there's this one right decision out there

07:49-Constructing alibis for your "failures" instead of moving through mistakes

08:15-What Perfectionism Comes Down To

09:15-When you're mortified you made such a careless mistake

10:01-Only when you hear how you talk to yourself do you actually know where YOUR best decision is

11:08-Making a mistake is an opportunity to throat punch yourself

11:25-How building up your capacity to make mistakes is like running stairs

12:43-I made mistakes and I had a lot of really crappy thoughts about myself

13:30-Mindlessly going from task to task instead of gaining the skills to make a mistake + level up

14:33-You stop giving power to the past it loses its power over you and you become the one in charge

15:12-Calmly and confidently making mistakes is a skill

15:58-The fastest way to figure out what's really underneath your perfectionistic patterns

Perfectionism Rewired is committed to truth and accuracy through a perfectionist affirming lens, offering cutting-edge research on perfectionism, interoception + neuroscience, for the practical perfectionist who wants to enjoy the life they've worked so hard to create.