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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00-Understanding Learned Helplessness Embedded In Perfectionism Recovery
01:28-Challenging Lies About Perfectionists with Science
02:16-Celebrating Famous Perfectionists Behind World-Changing Innovation
03:55-WTF Are Enduring Identity Markers + Why Do They Matter?
05:12-Unlearning Learned Helplessness with Dr. Martin Seligman (Godfather of Positive Psychology)
06:11-The Problem With Blaming Perfectionism
07:03-Flipping Helplessness to Empowerment
08:46-Rediscovering Being In Charge and Response-ability
10:12-Helplessness + Feeling Out of Control Re: Childhood Conditioning
11:58-Reframing Perfectionism as an Empowerment Journey
13:20-How To Quit Fighting Against Your Perfectionism + Work WITH It
15:05-What incest + perfectionism recovery have in common
16:40-Getting Your Perfectionism Right
17:25-Quality Questions To Snuff Out Helplessness
Truth + Accuracy In Episode 219 Is Brought To You By:
Abramson, L. Y., Seligman, M. E., & Teasdale, J. D. (1978). Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 87(1), 49–74. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843X.87.1.49
Quchani, M. (2023). The mediating role of coping styles in the association between perfectionism and learned helplessness in students’ population. Annales Médico-Psychologiques, 181(7), 619–627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2022.07.010
Woodfin, V., Binder, P. E., & Molde, H. (2020). The Psychometric Properties of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale–Brief. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1860.
Perfectionism Rewired is committed to truth and accuracy through a perfectionist affirming lens, offering cutting-edge research on perfectionism, interoception + neuroscience, for the practical perfectionist who wants to enjoy the life they've worked so hard to create.
