Will Save Your Sanity (Might Just Change Your Life)

Your Perfectionism does NOT work the way you think it does. Your brain predicts *almost* everything you feel, think, do, and when it gets it wrong, it's called a prediction error. Get up to speed on prediction errors and how learning a new language – interoception – to effectively interpret and understand your own emotions, thoughts and physiological responses will save your sanity and might just change your life.

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Here’s Episode 194 At A Glance:

00:00-Understanding perfectionism for less anxiety and controlling

01:33-Clearing Up The Myths + Misinformation About Perfectionism

03:06-IRL Perfectionist Client Testimonial: Kelly Perfectionist Parent 

05:27-Perfectionist Feeling Embarrassed At Work

06:18-Misunderstood Perfectionist Fears

07:21-Examining Sensory Data's Influence on Perfectionism

09:28-Trippy Example of Brain's Prediction In Action

10:07-This Is Poison to your progress 

11:53-Why Interoception Is Pivotal Perfectionists

13:01-Perfectionist Difficulties in Implementing Interoceptive Skills

13:55-Importance of Perfectionist Interoception

14:27-Are you Interoceptive Illiterate?

15:52-Where Do Brain Predictions Come From?

16:27-Who Profits from you believing in flaws, empower change

19:06-Living according to YOUR values, harmonizing career-family-you

Highly Credible Sources Referenced in Ep. 193 Include:

1. Alexandria Meyer, Karl Wissemann, Controlling parenting and perfectionism is associated with an increased error-related negativity (ERN) in young adults, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 87–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa018
2. Attwell D, Laughlin SB. An Energy Budget for Signaling in the Grey Matter of the Brain. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism doi:10.1097/00004647-200110000-00001
3. Barrett, L., Simmons, W. Interoceptive Predictions in the Brain National Review Neuroscience
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4. Jutta Stahl, Manuela Acharki, Miriam Kresimon, Frederike Völler, Henning Gibbons, Perfect error processing: Perfectionism-related variations in action monitoring and error processing mechanisms, International Journal of Psychophysiology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.06.002
5. Kummer, K., Mattes, A. & Stahl, J. Do perfectionists show negative, repetitive thoughts facing uncertain situations?. Curr Psychol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04409-3
6. Mattes, A., Mück, M., & Stahl, J. (2023). Perfectionism-related variations in error processing in a task with increased response selection complexity. Personality neuroscience, 5, e12. https://doi.org/10.1017/pen.2022.3
7. Ventura-Bort C, Wendt J and Weymar M (2021) The Role of Interoceptive Sensibility and Emotional Conceptualization for the Experience of Emotions. Front. Psychol. 12:712418. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712418