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Ep 374: How To Pinpoint When Thinking Turns Into Overthinking

The Perfectionism Project

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How to Overthink Your Time

When we're overthinking and a lot of the other perfectionist tendencies to a lot of that is because we don't trust that we will be able to handle the experience of shame or the experience of rejection. So we try to avoid it. Ironically creating a lot of shame and judging ourselves a lot, but wetry to avoid that with the overthinking and it just feels protective. Like if I just overthink enough, then I won't have an emotional situation that I can't handle. We obviously don't think that at a conscious level, but that's really what's going on underneath the surface.

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