Let's dismantle the glorification of perfectionism and reveal the significant toll it takes on our mental and physical health. It's a way of life many take part in, but few discuss the real consequences. Let's take a look into the stress, shame, and paralysis perfectionism can cause, and how these can obscure our mental clarity, stifle creativity, and impede progress in every facet of life.
In today's episode, I'll guide you through adopting a 'good enough' approach, sharing practical tips like setting decision-making deadlines and processing emotions without lingering on them. Drawing from personal experiences and my coaching practice, I offer a blueprint for a balanced approach to self-expectations and stress management. We'll discuss how to recognize the signs of stress in our own bodies and behaviors, and I'll empower you with strategies to mitigate the harmful impact it can have on our well-being.
Additionally, I'll provide a brief overview of how stress manifests in the body and its implications for our health. Together, let's loosen the grip of self-imposed pressure and embrace a mindset of curiosity and growth in our daily life. Tune in and embark on the journey towards a more graceful and fulfilling life.
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Let's dismantle the glorification of perfectionism and reveal the significant toll it takes on our mental and physical health. It's a way of life many take part in, but few discuss the real consequences. Let's take a look into the stress, shame, and paralysis perfectionism can cause, and how these can obscure our mental clarity, stifle creativity, and impede progress in every facet of life.
In today's episode, I'll guide you through adopting a 'good enough' approach, sharing practical tips like setting decision-making deadlines and processing emotions without lingering on them. Drawing from personal experiences and my coaching practice, I offer a blueprint for a balanced approach to self-expectations and stress management. We'll discuss how to recognize the signs of stress in our own bodies and behaviors, and I'll empower you with strategies to mitigate the harmful impact it can have on our well-being.
Additionally, I'll provide a brief overview of how stress manifests in the body and its implications for our health. Together, let's loosen the grip of self-imposed pressure and embrace a mindset of curiosity and growth in our daily life. Tune in and embark on the journey towards a more graceful and fulfilling life.
Thank you so much for listening!
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Visit my website & sign up for my newsletter
Welcome to the Wealthy Generation Podcast. I am your host, naomi Jerez, your Bronx race, dominicana wife, mother of two new BFF and food and holistic health coach. I went from living a surface level healthy life to learning firsthand how to live my best life, rooted in wellness, and get my status back. Whether you're a wellness enthusiast, a food lover or simply curious about creating a healthier, more vibrant life, this podcast is your guide. We're going to dive deep into topics that will inspire you to make positive changes and elevate not only your well-being but those of generations before and after you. Stay tuned for exciting conversations, expert interviews and a whole lot of inspiration that will lead to action. Welcome to the Wealthy, wellthy Generation Podcast with me, your host, naomi Jerez. Hey friends, welcome back to Wealthy Generation Podcast. Wellthy Today's episode. I feel I'm laughing because I feel like I'm gonna come after some of you. Okay, but I want you to know it's from a very loving place and I just really want to offer a perspective that I don't know if you've probably heard it before, but I just want you to know the health and wellness implications that it has to be a drum roll, please.
Speaker 1:Perfectionist, yes, perfectionist. I hear many times people throughout this word like it's a flex, and I want to tell you it is not a flex to be a perfectionist. You won't win any awards, you won't win a trophy, you won't probably be acknowledged for all of the extra hard work and thoughts that you put into doing whatever it is that you're doing that you want to make perfect. You can't perfect your routine. You can't perfect like. It's just not realistic, and I feel like we use this word like I'm such a perfectionist or you know, I'm a recovering perfectionist as a badge of honor, as like armor of this is why it's so hard for you to get past something or to complete something or to be able to move forward with something. Okay, it is not a flex and we must learn how to relax and look a little bit deeper into why you believe you are a perfectionist. Who told you you're a perfectionist? Why are you continuing to use this almost as an excuse? I'm sorry, I feel like I'm being so mean. I feel like I'm being so mean right now, but I don't really mean it in that way. I really want you to know that holding on to this identity is is causing you harm and it's hurting you because it keeps you in the cycle of stress, of being stuck on, shame.
Speaker 1:It's like this continuous cycle of that you can't get out of and all of these feelings and all of these thoughts about yourself are just so unproductive. You are striving to make something perfect at the cost of your mental and physical health, because I know this is I don't know if you know this, I'm sure you probably do but no one and nothing is perfect. It isn't. And when it's only perfectionism is just an opinion, is someone's opinion, it's someone's version of reality, it's someone's perception. And if we decide that whatever we do is perfect for us and for the best of our abilities, then it doesn't matter because it's our opinion. But most of the time we're striving to seek perfection for validation from other people, like look at what I accomplished, look at what I did. I'm such a perfectionist and this is why I got XYZ, but maybe it's just because you work hard. I think that working hard is different than being a perfectionist, because we can work hard and and execute on things that are not quote unquote perfect.
Speaker 1:So if you are consistently in this cycle of being kind of paralyzed, you can't move forward, you can't submit something you can't commit to, something you can't let go of something and then you feel shame around all of that, then that leads to so much mental space and capacity being taken up by just a few tasks and it doesn't give you the space and the creativity to continue to create and to move forward and to figure out new ways and, to, you know, excel and evolve. I think that should be the goal, and I don't think I necessarily ever considered myself a perfectionist, but I don't want to leave you hanging. If this is how you identify and now you're like a hella triggered. I promise you I'm not trying to be mean, but I do want to bring light as to how this hurts your health and what I do to continue to move forward with things that maybe I want to continue working on. When things are not ideal in the situation that I'm in, when the circumstance is an ideal and we just need to keep moving forward, however it is Right, and when you are in. First, let me explain to you why this is so detrimental to your health. And it's because when you are in this constant state of trying to perfect something whether it's your routine, whether it's, I don't know a paper how you handle whatever like, whatever you're working on and you're like, oh, I'm such a perfectionist, like I can't let this go, I can't move on.
Speaker 1:You are putting yourself in a consistent state of acute stress in your body. Your body always assumes that you are in danger and it is consistently preparing you to save yourself. Basically, your brain does not understand that why you're so stressed out is because you're trying to figure out the best way to handle your inbox. Your brain doesn't know that the reason why you're super stressed is because, let's see, you're trying to submit the best proposal ever, trying to perfect it. Right? Your brain assumes that you are going to get chased by a bear, that you need to get out of an accident. Your brain assumes so many things when you are in the state of consistent stress, which means that you consistently have elevated levels of cortisol, which is your main stress hormone. Right, and don't get me wrong, cortisol is amazing. Inflammation is amazing. It actually is what keeps us alive and safe and able to heal and able to isolate different injuries in the body. All of those things it is amazing. So the goal is never to get rid of it. However, stress has a cycle where it is elevated and then it ends, and most of the time, when it comes to a stressful situation, it requires us to move quickly. So, essentially, the stress cycle completes itself and the adrenaline burns off and your body is able to discard the excess cortisol hormones that you have floating around in there, and then the cycle is complete and you go back into what's called your rest and digest nervous system instead of being in your fight or flight nervous system right. But when you are in consistent amounts of acute stress right, perceived stress or stress from trying to perfect things then that constant low grade inflammation in your body will start to hurt you.
Speaker 1:In addition to cortisol, the stress hormone, and one of our sex hormones for women, progesterone, which is the hormone that helps, that makes us ovulate and form our uterine lining, which we shed during our period, cortisol and progesterone have the same precursor hormone, right? We're going into like a little hormone lesson here. So imagine like, let's say, a family tree, there's prognolone, which is the precursor hormone to cortisol and progesterone, cortisol being your stress hormone, progesterone being the hormone that starts to develop when we ovulate and build the uterine lining in hopes that the egg that is released from the egg follicle or from the follicle implants your uterus. And if that doesn't happen, then you have a period and it sheds. Now what progesterone also does is that it balances out estrogen, which is our other female hormone that allows for all of the other female cycles that we have, like breast of a man and the distribution of fat between like on our hips and our butt and our breasts, and all those things. If progesterone is not around, then estrogen runs wild and we go into what's called estrogen dominance, which has a whole host of effects like heavy periods. It's been linked to fibroids and the metriosis and a bunch of other things.
Speaker 1:Right, I didn't even expect I was going to go so deep into this in the topic of perfectionism, but here we are right. So the thing is that when we're consistently under this stress response, our body does not have unlimited resources. So what ends up happening is that your body's like, oh man, like she's so stressed she needs more cortisol hormones. She needs to, you know, move quickly or get out of there or keep herself safe. So instead of your body giving the precursor hormone pregnant alone to progesterone, it gives it to cortisol, and it's something that in science is called pregnant alone steel, where cortisol kind of steals the hormones from progesterone and this is why, when women are under super high stressful situations, oftentimes they have a delayed period, they have a missed period and they probably start to gain weight because progesterone and estrogen are not being in balance and it can cause infertility issues because now your sex hormones are all of a sudden not working properly, you're not ovulating, you're not creating this uterine lining because you're in such high stress situations. So most of the time, usually when couples, let's say, have a hard time conceiving and they're kind of like surrender and they go on vacation and all that, all of a sudden they get pregnant, right, because all of a sudden your body is not shuffling all its resources to cortisol and now progesterone gets to be activated again.
Speaker 1:Now this was a such a long-winded way to explain to you why being under a constant state of stress and shame and being stuck when you feel like you want to hold on to this perfectionist identity can be so detrimental to our health, not just our mental health, but our physical health, because it just keeps us stuck in the cycle of stress. When we don't know it, we're like anxious, we're very like looking around. You know, we want to fix things, our sleep is disturbed, like we don't eat well because we just want to keep fixing things right. See where that like. If you're feeling seen in anything that I'm sharing and I'm going to share how, again, how I move past these things, I have like seven tips on actions, on how to move forward, and before I go in there, like into the tips, I just want to share one more thing that I decided when I learned a ton about the nervous system, how it works, the impacts that it has on overall health, and if we don't learn how to self-regulate and go back into our rest and digest system I think I already mentioned it and it's the fact that if I don't learn how to self-regulate, I'm going to really be impacting my health.
Speaker 1:So something I decided was to ask myself is this really worth me getting stressed about, staying here in the stress response, like getting super worked up about because your girl loves to? If I get angry, I just love to stay angry, I love to push buttons, I love to pick fights like I. This probably my toxic trait, um, but I've learned that it doesn't serve me. It doesn't serve me because my body has to use all of these resources to keep me angry and safe. And all that and another thing I want to mention back to like the hormones and and being in the stress response. This is also probably why you don't have an appetite, you don't feel hungry, you have a hard time falling asleep at night, because all of this has is tied back to high cortisol response and being in your fight or flight system.
Speaker 1:When your body is in a fight or flight state, in your nervous system it shuts down all its other unnecessary resources for a survival. Remember, your body is so smart, so smart, is always trying to protect you, is always trying to make sure that you're alive and well and you can get out of dangerous situations. Um. So when you are in fight or flight mode, things that you do not need for survival is you don't need to be eating. There's no time to slow down and eat. You don't need hair, um, to survive. This is why a lot of people, when they're under a lot of stress, starts to lose their hair. You don't need your nails um, your nails become brittle. You don't need your period because the only reason why you need your period, when it comes down to the basics, is for reproduction, and if you are under this much stress and uncertainty, your body is so smart and it's like, oh, you don't need to get pregnant right now, like we're. We're just not gonna participate in this until you're in a safe environment and there's just so many more other things that happen.
Speaker 1:So, again, if you are in these cycles of, I want to be a perfectionist and I'm so stressed out and I can't you know, I can't get this just right and all that and all that these are all of the the results from consistently being in a stressed out mode. This is why I'm saying that is not a flex. You're only hurting yourself, right? Um, so fine, it's been like way too long. I'm going to get into how I keep things moving, not to say that I'm never stressed out and that I don't like producing good quality things, and I like things a certain way. However, in this process, I've learned to surrender a lot, because I realize that consistently being under this stress response or trying to make things perfect or things like that just don't serve me well. All right, so let's get into the tips. I have seven.
Speaker 1:So number one is I like good enough, be good Enough, and I execute, and when I tell these to my clients like you don't even Understand how triggered they get. And if you're my client and you're listening to this, I'm saying it again Let good enough be good enough. Sometimes it is just fine and we are in our head About it and about a certain situation. So that goes for the presentation you're building, the schedule and routine you want to create for yourself, and this is oftentimes why we get so discouraged, especially when it comes to wellness, because you're like I'm gonna eat clean every single day of the week, I'm gonna eat clean for all of my meals and everything's gonna be so perfect. And then all of a sudden, something happens and your circumstances change and all of a sudden your kid gets sick, or you don't make it home in time to make dinner, or you know you're invited somewhere else to go, or all of a sudden you really want to try that ice cream place that you pass by. So here comes the shame right. Here comes the stress, because it's not perfect, it's not the way you planned it. So deciding what's going to be the best option, option With in the situation you're in Whether that's building a presentation or like being out eating something or another one is like the gym routine.
Speaker 1:Everybody's like I'm gonna go to the gym five this week and I'm gonna be there for an hour and I'm gonna go do this and I'm gonna go do that and all of a sudden you can't keep up with that and it's like, oh, then I failed. Oh my gosh, there's so much shame, I'm not perfect, like why I need to perfect this. So if it's not perfect that I can't do anything right. That is not going to get you anywhere. Good enough is better than nothing. If you get to go to the gym one day, that's good enough. It's better than zero. If you get to eat two clean meals at a three a day, that's good enough. If you choose. I don't know a cleaner ice cream versus an ice cream that's full of random ingredients. That's good enough.
Speaker 1:Right, really, try and have discernment over what actually is okay, instead of spiraling it into something that is really like unattainable, unrealistic, unsustainable. We would all love that version, but the reality is that is not always available and let's not make that a problem. Number two is, if I am spinning out about something right and I'm having a hard time making a decision, I Give myself a dead, or. Or if I'm like really stressed over something and I'm sad and I'm moping, or I'm just having a bad time. I like to give myself a deadline, all right, I like to give myself the space to feel the feelings, to throw my tantrum, to like Sit there and mope. We need to give ourselves that space right. At the same time, I don't want to stay there forever. So I try and give myself a deadline and I'll say, like Naomi, it's cool, today we're just gonna stay on the couch and mope all day and do nothing. And or I'm just gonna cry and be whiny and all of that. And tomorrow, that's it like. Tomorrow we're gonna go and take action on whatever it is that we had to take action on and we're gonna keep moving. So it's not like dismissing your feelings or dismissing what you want to do for yourself is giving yourself the space for both, but also Making that decision that After this time like that's it we need to get it back together and we're gonna go move forward and figure out Whatever it is that we need to figure out.
Speaker 1:Number three is that I like to execute right, like the good enough is good enough, and then I like to analyze and see how I can improve that for next time. So if I give a presentation and I didn't love something about it. I make a mental note or or reflect on it in a journal and I think to myself okay, next time, what do I want to do about it next time? How do I want to show up Next time? How am I gonna improve this? Right, so you're evolving, you're making it better, but without the expectation that everything needs to be perfect In the first try. Rarely are things perfect in the first try. Everything's always evolving, everything's always getting better.
Speaker 1:I mean, just imagine, yeah, I'm gonna bring in some big brands here, but let's take Apple, for instance. Just imagine that Apple Decided not to launch the iPhone Until it looked like whatever phone we're up to now, I don't know the 15. I think it's the 15. I don't have the 15, so I don't know, I don't have the latest one, I mean. So imagine if Apple was like oh, we can't release this because it's not perfect. We can't release this because we know the camera could be better. We can't release this because we know, you know, we can do a front-facing camera and it's not there yet. Imagine. Imagine how many years now have they been just tweaking and adjusting and improving things on the phone. Imagine if they would have waited, they would have never had a business Because they would have, like, tapped out of all its resources. Everybody would have been like I'm done with this, like how much are we gonna work on something? So getting that feedback from clients, getting that feedback from team members, executing and then taking a look as to how you can make it better next time Can give you that safety of alright, I can still improve is not over yet, but still Executing where you need to execute Alright.
Speaker 1:Number four is surrendering to the circumstances, and I mentioned this Right at the beginning. You know, sometimes, for this week for example, I Haven't worked out all week, and Usually I work out three days a week. Am I bashing myself about it? No, I worked out on, let's say, tuesday, then usually Thursdays I Go to a hit class. I decided not to go to Thursday's hit class because I I felt it in my body I really needed to rest. I had been going three days a week for a very long time. I really was craving a slow morning, so that's what I decided to do, with no shame.
Speaker 1:Then the next day I go to the gym is on Sundays, to another hit class. But guess what, my friend hit me up and she was like hey, I got free tickets to a concert, do you want to come with me? And I was like hell, yeah, I want to go with you. Thank you so much for inviting me. But what does that mean? That I was gonna get home super late, which I did. It was like one o'clock in the morning or something like that, and I knew that I was gonna be too tired to get up and make it to my gym class at 9 am. So there went another day, all right, no shame. I decided I rather sleep, then wake up early and go to the gym.
Speaker 1:Then the next day I Workout is on Tuesdays, where I go see my personal trainer. But guess what? The Tuesday was when we had a big snowstorm in New York. The kids, the schools were closed, they had remote learning. I'm not even gonna get into that. It was like PTSD, flashbacks to 2020 and COVID times, and I was like I can't go, like I, there's a snowstorm and my kids are home and now I need to figure out all these things for them to log on. And it was just not gonna be enough time, and I even considered working out at home. But when I looked at the time I was like I'm just gonna be so stressed trying to complete this workout and prepare, like help my kids and help them with breakfast and make it to my client call, and I was like it's just not worth it.
Speaker 1:So there we go, over a week and I just surrendered to the circumstances, like it was things I could not control and it was opportunities. Like the concert was an opportunity and I decided to go for it. I was going to spend time with a friend, I was going to listen to music, all of that. Then the snowstorm. No control over that. Surrender to the circumstances, right.
Speaker 1:But the next tip number five, is that I make a decision on when I am going to resume what I stopped. So guess what? My trainer, first of all Thursday. I'm like, all right, thursday I can go back to my hit class. And then my trainer texts me and he's like hey, do you want to train on Sunday, which I usually have my hit class then too. But I was like, yes, let's train. So it's just trusting yourself enough that you are going to resume what you stopped doing, either because you made a decision to stop doing it or because there were circumstances that arise that were impromptu and unexpected or there were circumstances you had zero control over, like weather, right, things like that. So those two things together right, surrendering to circumstances and then, if you have to stop doing it for whatever reason, then resuming when you're going to do it.
Speaker 1:Number six is to try something new. Right, like there might be situations where things are not working. You're forcing yourself to do things in a certain way, for whatever reason, and they just don't work. So you think that the way you want to do it is perfect, and then you find that that doesn't serve you or work for you. And I'm going to give you an example from one of my clients.
Speaker 1:One of my clients she really only wanted to work out in the morning, like like she really wanted to work out only in the morning, and but she also told me that she had been going to afternoon classes and she was enjoying them because she was going to afternoon classes while after she was done with work and while her children were in afterschool activities. So she had this time allotted to her where she wasn't really missing out on family time. She was able to use this time, but she was hung up about it because it was not morning exercise and in the morning she's like I want to work out in the morning. But then I'm like rushing and I'm stressed about it because my kids are home and we're getting ready in the morning and we're talking and you know I'm helping them with their lunch and we're bonding. But I also want to work out.
Speaker 1:And I asked her I'm like what's, what's, what about just working out in the afternoon? It seems like it's actually working well and with your schedule, what's the hang-up of doing it in the morning versus the afternoon? And then she was like I don't know, I don't know. You know there's so much talk out there of like you know, I wake up at 5 am, like successful people, right, they're always like I wake up at 5 am and then I meditate and then I work out for an hour and then I eat breakfast and I do all these things.
Speaker 1:But the truth is that that's not realistic for a lot of people. It's just not right, and to put that pressure on yourself, to pigeonhole yourself into doing things one way because this is what the majority of people are saying or doing it does not give you space to try something new that might work better for you. So my client was able to actually keep consistent with her exercise routine and she loved it because it was at a time where she didn't feel like she had to choose between bonding with her family and her own health and wellness. So when you create space for yourself in health and wellness, right, you also want to take in other factors that also are part of your holistic health and wellness, and for in this example, it was quality time with her family. That was really important to her. So if you are not willing to try something new, to look at a new viewpoint, to do things kind of your way and not the way society tells you, you can do it. You can let go a lot of that like this is not perfect because it doesn't look like XYZ Alright.
Speaker 1:And with that said, my last tip on perfectionism is that I learned how to be realistic with myself. I learned how to set appropriate expectations or adjust in circumstances that don't serve me anymore, and this is something I've coached my client on actually this week, and I'll give you her example. Right, these are really good examples that I'm sure you can also feel seen and relate to. So she's an entrepreneur and she has a bunch of clients and she has a very successful business in her first year. She's growing fast and she has a lot of presentations. She also has classes that she needs to complete and take an exam for, and she had, like, creative projects that she's doing. She has presentations, she needs to travel.
Speaker 1:She was applying for things like I'm sure you're feeling overwhelmed already, right, and something I was coaching her on is number one. I helped her organize her schedule in a way that felt more manageable and less overwhelming, right, and then I was coaching her and explaining to her that as we move forward right, although we want to do all of these things immediately, we also have to be realistic with ourselves as to how much we can take on while managing, not burning out and leaving space for us to also take care of ourselves. So, in that, it's like, okay, we have all these things to do. When am I going to rest? When am I going to move my body? When am I going to eat? When am I going to take a breather? When am I going to spend time with family? Like?
Speaker 1:These are all things that we have to be realistic with ourselves about, and sometimes that's a little disappointing at least for me, like it was sometimes because it's like man, I want to do all of these things and I want to do them fast and I want to do them well. But the truth is that I actually have to make a choice in those like you always pay the price in some way, right? So I have to be realistic with myself as to what price am I paying? Because if I want to do all the things and I want to complete everything immediately on my list, then I will probably pay the price with my health by getting really sick and burning out, right? So then where does that leave me? It leaves me completely wiped out for probably a week or two, as your body knocks you out, as it usually does, and then you're stuck back in the perfectionist cycle of stuck and shame and stress, because now you really cannot get anything done. You have to prioritize your rest because you really don't have the energy or the capacity to do anything else. You probably have to cancel way more things that you needed to. If you just were realistic with yourself from the start and space things out and you what your capacity was and know what your learning style was and all those things, which is things that you learn with time right.
Speaker 1:So these are my seven tips. I hope they are useful. I hope they serve you. You got so much today Everything from like grilling you on perfectionism and recovering perfectionists to a whole lesson on hormone health and how cortisol works in the body and how, when it's consistently in our body in small ways, it can wreak havoc on our health to seven tips that I implement, use and have learned and practice myself to aim to keep things moving, not get too much in my head, not get too too stressed about it or end the stress cycles, so that we can keep improving and getting better.
Speaker 1:That is all we can hope for. It's not perfectionism, but you can always improve. You can always do things better and differently. Try new things to see if they serve you. You know, surrender to the circumstances, especially those you can't control, which I know sometimes is hard, because it happens to me. This weekend, anyway, over this past weekend, I hope I hope this served you.
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Speaker 1:I appreciate your support and, as always, if you know that one-on-one guidance in food and holistic health is what you absolutely need after trying different things for so long and you really want to try something new and you're trying to be realistic with yourself of what your capacity is, and you know that one-on-one support that's culturally relevant is exactly what you need right now, I also invite you to book that consultation consultation calls so we can chat about what your concerns are, what your health issues are, where do you want to be, what you've tried before in the past and how I can help you Right. So I cannot wait to see you, to see you on Instagram, to connect with you there, to connect with you on a consultation call. I hope this was helpful. I'll talk to you all next time.
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