Recovering Perfectionist? Here's How Daily Mantras And Self-Acceptance Bring You Back To Your Authentic Self with Karen Blaine [Ep 99] — The Cinnamon Effect - Supporting Women's Health, Emotional Resilience and Personal Growth

What if the pressure to get everything right was handed to you long before you were old enough to question it?

In this episode, I'm joined by Karen Blaine, a retired hypnotherapist who practiced conversational hypnotherapy for years before turning to writing, and who has since published six books on authenticity, resilience, and emotional well-being, including her newest, The Illusion of Perfection.

Karen and I talk about where the chase for perfect begins and why it takes hold before we're old enough to name it. She walks me through what she does in the first few minutes after making a mistake in a room full of people, and the daily mantras she repeats in the mirror on ordinary days so they're already there on hard ones. I tell her where I've landed as a recovering perfectionist, including the technical trouble we hit right before we started recording and what we decided to do with it.

What this episode covers:

Where the pull toward perfect starts, and the parental expectations that keep it running
What to do in the first five minutes after you make a mistake in public
How self-talk loops on itself, and where you can cut it off
What Karen pictures around herself before she walks into a crowded store, and why she calls it an invisible shield
Why a gratitude practice may take the sting out of things going sideways
Why highly sensitive people carry emotions that were never theirs to begin with
The one thing Karen wishes she'd given herself while her kids were still at home
How finding passion changed her granddaughter, and what it can do for the rest of us

Perfect was never the point. This episode is your reminder to choose self-acceptance over performance, energy protection over absorbing everyone around you, and a self-discovery that leads you back to your authentic self.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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