Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy 463: The Perfectionism Webinar, Part 2 of 2
Aug 25, 2025
In this engaging discussion, psychologist Jill Levitt shares her expertise on defeating perfectionism and embracing self-acceptance. She explores powerful techniques like cognitive distortion identification and the externalization of voices. Listeners will learn to confront their fears through the 'feared fantasy' approach, highlighting the humor in harsh self-judgment. The conversation also emphasizes valuing love and connection over flawlessness, offering practical strategies to boost motivation and enhance therapeutic skills.
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Explain Distortions To Change Beliefs
- Explaining distortions converts a checklist into a deep corrective process that changes beliefs.
- A single truthful, believable positive thought can collapse the original negative belief and relieve the feeling.
Use Externalization Of Voices
- Play the negative voice and have the patient defend themselves using three strategies: self-defense, acceptance, or counterattack.
- Push for a 'huge' win where the patient stops believing the negative voice completely.
Externalization Reaches The Gut
- Externalization of voices combines psychodrama's emotional impact with CBT's structure to hit the gut level.
- When patients internalize this, brief sessions can produce deep acceptance akin to spiritual insight.
