No Alcohol Needed: The Podcast

E50: Perfectionism and Addiction


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Are perfectionism and addiction connected? Join us we we dive into how perfectionism is linked to addiction, and how we've overcome it in recovery. We’re joining recovery coach and Instagram sober superstar Daph, the host of Creating Ripples podcast, Alex, and our good friend John to talk about how perfectionism shows up in our recovery. It seems like some people struggled with perfectionism, and it was one of the causes of their drinking. And others fight perfectionism now that they’re in recovery, wanting to make up for lost time. Either way, we’re diving into perfectionism into this episode, sharing what we’ve learned and sharing where we’ve struggled.

“I realized I lived my whole life by expectations.”

Some of the concepts we cover include:

  • Trying to ‘perfect’ our recovery
  • Learning to embrace where we are right now
  • Parenting and perfectionism
  • Learning to accepting being ‘good enough’
  • Finding balance in the all or nothing mentality
  • People pleasing and becoming a doormat
  • The opposite of perfectionism – where we don’t even bother to try
  • Trying to get people to like us
  • Discovering our own expectations
  • Communicating and knowing our limits
  • The tendency to quit things we can’t do perfectly
  • Talking to ourselves like we would if we were children
  • “We shouldn’t ‘should’ our lives away.”

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