YOUR. TRAUMAS. ARE. NOT. YOUR. PERSONALITY. TRAITS - OK?
"No I just can't do that because I'm such a perfectionist"
"No I just couldn't do what you do because I'm such a people pleaser"
How often do you catch yourself saying one of the phrases above? To friends, family members or even, strangers. What if you knew that every single time you reaffirmed one of these beliefs, both out loud and in your head, you were actually saying "I am a victim of my undealt with traumas" instead? Would that change the way you started speaking about yourself at all?
In this day and age of extreme niching, self diagnosing and hyper-identifying with labels that make us feel more safe and comfortable with knowing who we are... why is it then, that as a species, we are more lost, anxious, depressed, stagnant and paralysed than we have ever been before?
In this episode, Maya and Sam (Maya's sister, Sian's, boyfriend - lol) delve into the topic of what it truly means to be a self proclaimed "Perfectionist" and "People Pleaser". As recovering perfectionists and people pleasers, themselves, find out how they personally have overcome and continue to overcome, their previous attachments to the labels that they once identified with for so long, and see how you can finally break up with the labels you are currently over-identifying with, and keeping yourself stuck in, too.