Perfectionism and Overeating Voice

Perfectionism is motivated by fear of failure.⁣
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𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱-𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺, 𝘸𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵.⁣
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As a response, we become more rigid in our approach to weight loss. Stricter diets, less tolerance for slips and slides. And we make the problem worse. (By the end of my overeating, I was failing every 24 hours.)⁣
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Why are we afraid? Because we don’t actually know what’s causing us to fail. We blame ourselves for being “weak”, “unmotivated”, “lazy” and the like. We just beat the hell out of ourselves for failing.⁣
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Perfectionism is the fear of being weak, lazy, and unmotivated.

NONE OF WHICH WE ARE.
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My friends, we’re failing because we have an overeating mind – a part of our brain that has splintered off and has gone haywire about food. It’s just dysfunctional thinking around food that sounds functional in our minds – that’s why we follow it to the donut shop for no reason other than it’s 3:30pm on a sunny afternoon. Because it’s made those things perfectly rational. Logical. (Those things AREN’T rational or logical).⁣
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When we’re willing to look at our slips and slides on our stop-overeating journey, we’ll find the origin in our overeating mind. When we SEE it – we understand it. When we understand it, we learn from it. And when we learn from it, we have the chance to stop doing it authentically (peacefully!).⁣
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