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28: Stop Beating Yourself Up: How to Avoid Common Self-Criticism Mistakes


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Do you scrutinize yourself for every mistake you make? Do you feel the urge to complete everything perfectly? Have you been feeling lately that your confidence and self-esteem has taken a dip? Well, these signs might be the consequences of intense self-criticism. While gently evaluating your mistakes is fine and rather constructive to avoid doing them again, self-criticism is far from being beneficial.

In this episode of Self-Care and Hustle we’ll discuss how excess self-criticism can lead to mental health problems and disorders (notably eating disorders). How being very harsh towards yourself can lead to you being in toxic relationships.

We will also discuss the root causes of a person developing this toxic habit of self-criticizing. Whether you might have carried it with you from childhood events or whether you feel that it keeps you on your toes and allows you to keep succeeding in life, we’ll discuss the dangers of this.

“Children at a young age are very impressionable and however we’ll treat them and whatever they’ll see around them, it is very likely they will carry that with them for the rest of their lives!”

It is important to know the root cause of the issue for solving it.

“You need to recognize this pattern in order to break this self-criticism curse.”

And lastly, it wouldn’t be a proper Self-Care & Hustle podcast, without me sharing and discussing some tips on how to quit this habit and live a better lifestyle. It’s totally okay to feel overwhelmed if you feeling like you’re going through the exact same problem, just know that with patience and persistence you can overcome this unhealthy habit.

“Remind yourself that there is room for improvement, but don’t tell yourself that you cannot do it!”

You can use these timestamps to guide yourselves through the episode:

00:34 Introduction

01:22 Effects of self-criticism/ common mistakes 

05:02 Causes of self-criticism 

07:44 How to deal with self-criticism

10:56 Outro/Ending remarks

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feel good, do goodBy Neslie Foliente