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Most Self-Improved
Most Self-Improved is a personal growth podcast that releases new episodes every other Thursday, or Thersday! Unless that's annoying, then let's just keep moving!
Show hosts Erin Jensen and Bhavana Chilukuri are friends who met in a comedy class in 2019, which they'd enrolled in after being dumped. They quickly bonded over the shared habit of dreaming bold dreams and wanting to go after them. Quite candidly and humorously they'll admit to you that they don't have it allll figured out, but they are certainly trying!
In each episode, Bhavana and Erin will talk to an expert (typically in the wellness space) to help answer questions that they, along with their fellow Millennial women, are curious about: “How do I make friends as a thirty-something?” “Do I really need a 25-step skincare routine?” “How do I truly know if I want kids?”
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‘The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control’: Part 3
Calling all perfectionists: this series is for you! In "The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control,” psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler gives a formula for feeling restored and highlights the importance of allowing yourself to experience pleasure today.
“Restoration is a two-phase process. You empty yourself out, you fill yourself back up,” she writes. Katherine says restoration is the combination of passive relaxation (think watching TV, taking a nap) and active relaxation (things like walking, cooking, going to a social gathering).
Katherine also warns against putting off pleasure: “When you make your access to pleasure conditional (a ‘treat’ for being good), you’re communicating to yourself that whether you deserve to feel good lies in direct proportion to your performance, not your existence.”
She emphasizes to readers that their value lies in who they are as people, not their number of wins.
“All people care about is you, and you are not a composite list of your perceived accomplishments and failures in life," she writes. "The energy you bring into the room with you is more valuable than anything you could ever do.”
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Buy the book and read along. The reading schedule is as follows. Read each section prior to listening to the episode.
Nov. 30 episode covers Chapters 1 through 4
Dec. 7 episode covers Chapters 5 through 7
Dec. 14 episode covers Chapters 8 and 9
Find out what type of perfectionist you are with this quick quiz.
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