When we face unexpected challenges, it’s normal for our brains to spin out in worry and fear about potential outcomes. This mental “spin cycle” not only hinders our ability to accurately assess the probability and severity of these outcomes but also impairs our prefrontal cortex’s problem-solving ability. If you’re faced with an unexpected problem and want to stop your brain’s spin cycle, what can you do? In this episode you’ll learn a powerful three-step strategy to halt the spin cycle and how this strategy can help you calm down, identify practical solutions, and feel more confident handling the problem.
Confidence
Outsourcing confidence is something all perfectionist women do. While there is probably a biological benefit to our brains doing it, it can be quite problematic. If you notice you’re outsourcing your confidence, what can you do about it? In this episode you’ll learn why we outsource confidence and self-worth and why it’s better to source them internally. Listen in to hear examples of how you might be outsourcing confidence and how you can transition to in-sourcing instead.
Women face a host of physiological, neurological, cultural and other factors that inhibit their confidence. Beyond the strategies discussed in last week’s episode, what can women do to overcome specific confidence blockers? Listen in to learn why confidence is especially challenging for perfectionist women, six confidence blockers all women should watch out for, and practical strategies to combat each one.
Confidence is foundational to accomplishing goals and dreams in life, but it doesn’t come easily to most women. So, if you’re a woman who wants to improve her confidence, what can you do? Listen in to hear six things anyone can do to improve their confidence.
Every day our amazing brains automatically and subconsciously collect evidence from the world around us. But sometimes they misinterpret evidence or collect evidence that isn’t helpful. What, if anything, can we do if we want to change that?
In this episode you’ll learn one of my favorite self-coaching tools you can use to override your brain’s default evidence collection process. This tool is incredibly powerful, universally applicable, and simple to use. Listen in to learn the four-step process that can help you improve any area of your life.
This episode is part three of a three-part series on the lies of perfectionism. In this episode, I discuss lies five and six. If you identify as a perfectionist, or if you think perfectionism helps you do better work and be a better person, I invite you to question those beliefs. Listen in to find out more and to consider how they’re impacting your life.
This episode is part two of a three-part series on the lies of perfectionism. In this episode, I discuss lies three and four. If you identify as a perfectionist, or if you think perfectionism helps you do better work and be a better person, I invite you to question those beliefs. Listen in to find out more and to consider how they’re impacting your life.
Do you identify as a perfectionist? Do you think perfectionism helps you do better work and be a better person? Perfectionism pretends to be noble. It pretends to help you improve and grow. But for a lot of high-achieving women, perfectionism isn’t helpful. For a lot of high-achieving women, it creates crippling self-doubt and leaves them feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and stuck. In this episode I discuss the first two of seven lies of perfectionism. Listen in to find out how to question your beliefs around perfectionism and consider how they’re impacting your life.