ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast
Perfectionism & ADHD: overriding our brains to reach our potential - Re-release
04 Jan 2024
"Choosing between the potential of failing and maybe succeeding...or failing ahead of time by not doing it at all."In this week’s episode, our host, Kate Moryousseftalks about how perfectionism shows up alongside ADHD with her guest, Kristen Carder, an ADHD expert and host of the I Have ADHD podcast. During this episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Kristen talked about:What perfectionism isHow it shows up for people with ADHDSeparating your worthiness from your performance How shame from childhood can create perfectionism as an adult Trauma response and perfectionismBreaking perfectionism down to understand to override itFear disguised as perfectionism and how you’re ultimately protecting yourselfAwareness and using self-compassionate talk Deciphering RSD (rejection sensitivity dysphoria) and perfectionismFocusing on what lights you up and lowering the bar and inner expectation so we can move forwardsRest can be the most productive thing we can do - manage our energy.Join the waitlist for my new program, ADHD Mindset & Energy Re-ProgrammeKate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner helping overwhelmed yet unfulfilled (many with ADHD like her) women find more calm, balance, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.Follow the podcast on Instagram hereFollow Kate on Instagram hereHave a read of Kate’s articles in ADDitude magazine hereMentioned in this episode:Gratitude link
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