Dr. Yesel Yoon writes about perfectionism, burnout, and navigating life transitions
Changing Your Self Talk: Want to see real results? Change how you talk to yourself. We’re often our harshest critic and fall into a trap of negative self-talk. This will leave us unmotivated, with lower self-esteem and fear of trying new things. Switch your self-talk from criticism to self-compassion. In this blog post, I discuss the benefits of positive compassionate self talk and give examples of how to switch your self-talk.
We often get messages about peak performance and productivity, and pursuing our passions, but we don’t get the healthy ones that will help us prevent burn out and cope with overwhelming stress and anxiety. Whether you are an entrepreneur or any sort of professional who has experienced burnout, today’s blog article is for you. I share lessons I’ve learned by becoming a psychologist in private practice and how I’ve dealt with the ups and downs of burn out, pressures to perform, and pursuing a career passion. Read more to feel less alone and get encouraged about the normalcy of these challenges.
What do you do as your mind wanders, races, ruminates, and fixates on the most annoying, stressful, fear-inducing thoughts and worries? A pandemic like coronavirus is certainly not helping your cause. Today’s blog is about how to calm your anxious thoughts (hint: without necessarily getting rid of them) and how to help calm yourself down when those thoughts get to be too much. You may not have control over the thoughts in your head but you certainly have control over how you manage your response to them. Learn more about how to tame the worries in your head.
Do you struggle with feeling like you are not good enough? Perfectionists and people with unrealistically high standards can often get stuck in a trap of never feeling like what they do is enough. This can have bad consequences for our mental health and well being. You can recalibrate your internal compass of success so you have more realistic and flexible standards that still allow you to be your best while also feeling much more confident. Read today’s post to learn how to readjust your internal compass of success and believe: You are Enough.
Being a perfectionist means you’re familiar with the inner voice that can be pretty mean and critical most of the time. I am a psychologist who helps people overcome the negative impact of these critical voices and learn how to shift the inner voice into a more compassionate one. I share my personal journey with my own inner critic and how I have worked to overcome perfectionism in my life. Read more about how you can un-do the habits of perfectionism and how to be nicer to yourself.
