Are You Stuck in Your Own Perfectionism? - with Clinical Psychologist Dr Natasha Wallace
🧠 You are not lazy. You are stuck in a cycle that keeps resetting itself.
It starts with impossibly high standards. Which leads to feeling overwhelmed. So you put it off. Then comes the guilt, the sense of falling behind, the pressure building again. And the whole thing starts over.
Dr. Natasha Wallace breaks down why this perfectionism and procrastination loop is so common, particularly in high-achieving women and mothers, and more importantly, how to interrupt it.
Lower the bar from perfect to good enough. A completed task will always be more valuable than an unfinished one. Start with a single step, or just two minutes. Not to build momentum, but simply to avoid shocking yourself into inaction.
Notice the inner critic. That voice telling you that you are not enough is coming from fear, not fact.
And celebrate small wins. Not as a reward, but because your nervous system needs to feel safe before it can move forward.
The goal is not to push harder. It is to create enough safety within yourself to take the first step at all.
What does your perfectionism procrastination loop tend to look like?
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