141: How to Cultivate Self-Compassion When You're a Perfectionist

The Christian Mindset Coach with Alicia Michelle

Self compassion is a big part of having a healthy identity as a Christian woman, or just as a woman in general. If we struggle with perfectionism, however, at times it can feel downright impossible to have compassion for ourselves. All we can see are the things that are wrong, or the things that need to change.

How can we cultivate self compassion when we struggle with perfectionism? As a recovering perfectionist myself, the info I’m sharing in today’s episode blew my mind!

I cannot wait to share how to welcome more self compassion, how to use compassion to manage shame triggers (often the root of perfectionism) and how godly compassion is a powerful way that God brings healing in us so that we can heal others.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

• [2:01] What the perfectionist mind is like
• [3:38] Perfectionism is a response to shame
• [7:30] The opposite of shame is self compassion and forgiveness
• [8:31] How to describe perfectionism
• [11:39] Compassion for others starts with self compassion
• [14:28] A definition of self compassion
• [18:25] Bible verses related to self compassion
• [26:23] Why it is so difficult for us to have self compassion
• [29:30] Having enough self compassion to cope with shame triggers
• [33:59] Self compassion as a mental clearing
• [35:25] Loving our neighbors as we love ourselves
• [37:22] Believing in the compassion God has for us

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