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Episode 87: The Good Girl — an Archetype, a Nervous System State, & How to Break Free (solo episode)

Holistic Trauma Healing with Lindsey Lockett

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Are You in Good Girl Programming?

You also might be a good girl if you're driven by perfectionism and if you feel shame when you aren't perfect. Another way that you might be in good girl programming is if you judge and criticize empowered embodied women for how they behave or dress or speak or post online. So if you encounter an embodied authentic vocal empowered woman, then your inner good girl is going to feel fucking intimidated by that woman. And so we criticize and judge these very empowered embodied authentic women.

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You also might be a good girl if you're driven by perfectionism and if you feel shame when you aren't perfect or when you aren't perceived as perfect. So perfectionism is a huge part of good girl programming, especially in Western cultures, Western societies, we are driven by perfectionism. And then shame is a really tricky emotion because shame is a manifestation of the immobilization of our nervous systems. It's a collapse in our nervous systems. So when we feel shame, we also feel stuck and if you feel stuck and what's driving your stuckness is that you are afraid you're not going to get something perfect, therefore you won't do it at all, then you're staying in that cycle of shame and stuckness. And that is an indicator that you could be in good girl programming. Another way that you might be in good girl programming is if you judge and criticize empowered embodied women for how they behave or dress or speak or post online. So if you encounter an embodied authentic vocal empowered woman, then your inner good girl is going to feel fucking intimidated by that woman. And instead of allowing yourself to be inspired by her and challenged by her and maybe even learn something from that woman, your inner good girl and the inner judge co-conspire and they talk about all the ways that that woman is wrong. Look at how she dresses. What a slut. Look at all that makeup she wears. I wonder why she's trying to get so much attention. Look at those clothes. Like she's clearly trying to attract the wrong kind of man. Can you believe she would say something like that online? I mean, God, how inappropriate. The nerve of that woman. And so we criticize and judge these very empowered embodied authentic women.

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