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Tag Archives: Perfection
Thought for the Week…
It is an impossible task. The moment you start trying to please everyone is the moment you set yourself up to fail. And it takes so much energy…it is exhausting. So set a new goal. Work to please yourself and … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Awen Therapy, Change, Jay Blevins, MFT, Perfection, Perfectionism, Psychotherapy, Therapy
Tagged Advice, Awen Therapy, Failure, Jay Blevins, Perfection, Perfectionism
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Two Therapists Talking: The Problem with Perfectionism
In this episode of Two Therapists Talking, Jasmine St. John and I discuss how trying to be perfect can get in our way of being happy. If you have questions or a topic you’d like to hear us discuss, write … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Change, Jasmine St. John, Jay Blevins, JSJ Therapy, MFT, Perfection, Perfectionism, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Two Therapists Talking
Tagged Awen Therapy, Imperfection, Jasmine St. John, Jay Blevins, JSJ Therapy, Perfection, Perfectionism, Therapy, Two Therapists Talking
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Being Right Versus Being Kind – Take 2…
Last week I wrote about how sometimes it is more important to be kind than it is to be right when we are interacting with important people in our lives. But like most things, there are multiple facets of the … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Care, Compassion, Emotions, Failure, MFT, Mistakes, Perfection, Psychotherapy, Shame, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Compassion, Failure, Imperfection, Kindness, MFT, Mistakes, patterns, Perfection, Perspective, Therapy, Understanding
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Confident…About What?
I was having a conversation with a friend they other day when they asked me a question that caught me off guard. They asked me “how can you always be so confident and know what to do?” The reason I … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Bravery, Challenges, Confidence, Courage, Failure, Fall, Fear, MFT, Mistakes, Perfection, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Challenge, Change, Confidence, Failure, Fear, Imperfection, MFT, Perfection
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The Process of Change Revisited
Sometime back I wrote a post titled Change vs. the Process of Change. I discussed the fact that change is the place we want to be while the process of change is the road to reaching that place. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Change, Emotional Safety, Failure, Fear, Imperfection, Mistakes, Perfection, Perspectives, Psychotherapy, Relationships
Tagged Awen Therapy, Change, Couples, Journey, Perfection, Relationships, Risk, Therapy, Understanding
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Spinning a Tale…
Here I go again. Another post centered on a TED Talk. What can I say? I’m a huge fan. If I was young and hip I might say I was a fanboy. Fortunately I don’t suffer from any illusions that … Continue reading
Posted in 4 a.m., Authentic Self, Awen Therapy, Challenges, Control, Decisions, Failure, Fear, Identity, Imperfection, MFT, Mistakes, Perfection, Perspectives, Poet Rives, Problem Saturated, Psychotherapy, Reasons, Risk, TED Talk, Therapy, Tools, Vulnerability
Tagged Anxiety, Awen Therapy, Change, Emotions, Fear, Imperfection, MFT, Perfection, Perspective, Poet Rives, Problem Saturated, Reasons, Risk, TED Talk, Therapy, Vulnerability
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I Don’t Read Instruction Manuals Anyway…
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes. We all make them. How can we not? We are imperfect beings. We have limits…of understanding, of knowledge, of experiences. But yet we so often beat ourselves up for making them. Some of us more than others. … Continue reading
Posted in Acceptance, Awen Therapy, Challenges, Change, Failure, Imperfection, Mistakes, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Change, Imperfection, Instructions, MFT, Mistakes, Perfection, Perspective, Therapy
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Sometimes There Are Just Choices…
Life seems to present us with an endless stream of choices to make. Some of them we make without really giving them much thought. In fact most of them are like that. Every time we do something during the day, … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Choices, Imperfection, MFT, Perfection, Personal Power, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Choices, Failure, Imperfection, MFT, Perfection, Personal Power, Therapy
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