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You're Working Too Hard
Why Perfectionism, People Pleasing and Procrastination Have Us Doing Too Much & Feeling Exhausted!
You're Working Too Hard
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Why "just stop" does not work with procrastination
If you struggle with procrastination, you know how tough it can be to break the habit. That's because most of us try to do it by just forcing ourselves to stop. Not only is that the wrong approach, but this often exacerbates the problem. <...
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The mental math of people pleasing
We don't think about this a lot, but people pleasing often comes with a lot of mental math. We try to figure out the exact right "threshold" at which it's OK to say "no" to a new request. At what number of overtime hours can we legitimately say...
Overworking as insurance against feeling bad
Do you ever end up editing the same document 20 times before sending it out, because you think "if something is wrong in it, I can at least tell myself I did everything possible to avoid that?"That's overworking as an insurance against f...
The different types of overfunctioning (and what we can do about them)
This week's episode delves into the different forms of overfunctioning - overthinking, overworking, overcommitting, living in overwhelm. I talk about what lies behind those patterns and what we can do to get ourselves out of them!
How I took care of myself during a tough time period
This week, I am sharing a very vulnerable story about how I showed up for myself during an intense health scare. I am hoping this gives you some ideas of things you can do for yourself or someone else in your life who is also having a rough tim...