Today I’m really excited to share my conversation with Monica Denais, LatinX Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor in Dallas, Texas. Monica was also a huge support to me in starting this podcast. We talk about the struggles of perfectionism, as well as how to identify and overcome these traits. Monica and I share our own struggles with perfectionism and how we have helped ourselves and our clients to cope and transform this way of thinking.
This episodes dives into:
- The positive twist of perfectionism and how to utilize it for good.
- How to identify perfectionism.
- How perfectionism shows up in various stages and cycles of life.
- Diving into the roots of perfectionism.
- Impact of your family of origin and the roles within our family system on perfectionistic tendencies.
- Justine & Monica share their own stories which led them to perfectionistic habits.
- How standards of communities and cultures impact perfectionism.
- The relationship between anxiety and perfectionism.
- The connection of procrastination and perfectionism.
- Shame as the driving force of perfectionism.
- Various models of therapy that support perfectionistic tendencies.
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