COURSE

Escape The Prison Of Perfectionism

In this course, Escape the prison of perfectionism, you are invited to break free from that prison. And you'll do that through some reflection, gentle awareness, as well as having practical tools, and begin to recognise patterns that are keeping you stuck and replace them with self-acceptance, clarity, and ease, and realise that freedom doesn't come from doing everything perfectly. It's allowing yourself to be good enough to be fully human.

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Meet your Teacher

Helen Pengelly

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Helen is an accredited coach, EFT practitioner, and meditation teacher. In 2006, after attending a meditation workshop, she felt calmer than ever before. She joined a meditation class led by very experienced Buddhist teachers. There were no apps back then. She went on her first retreat in 2009. Since 2011 she’s been volunteering at retreat centres where she spends about 2 months each year and hangs out with some of the best Buddhist teachers. She qualified as a coach in 2014 and has been teaching and leading meditations since 2015. Helen uses what she’s learned through difficult life experiences to help others be happy, whatever. She uses her own unique blend of coaching, mindfulness, intuitive and spiritual powers, and EFT. She’s passionate about helping you heal from your past and live the life you’re here to enjoy.

5 Days

20 students

4.0 stars

5 min / day

Healing

English

Lesson 1

Understanding Perfectionism

Perfectionism comes from not feeling good enough. It could even be a trauma response from receiving a lot of criticism when you were younger and you've actually internalised that. And we've heard messages when we were young children from parents, other caregivers, teachers, and we take on all those.

Lesson 2

Uncovering Your Triggers

If getting old is bad because you're meant to have perfect skin, a perfect body, which ends up causing us distress. So you can maybe start to recognise what is causing this perfectionism in your life and where that shows up, and perhaps where it gets triggered sometimes.

Lesson 3

Shifting Your Mindset

You might start to reframe some of these times when you haven't been perfect or maybe the complete opposite where things haven't worked out. And we don't have to give up completely and say, "I'm a failure." Let's deconstruct it a bit and think, what went wrong? Why didn't that work out? How can I improve on it?"

Lesson 4

Practical Tools To Break Free

With a perfectionist standard, it could be that you don't finish anything because it's never good enough. When an artist finishes their work, for example, they sign it at the bottom, and that signals that the work is finished. And I'm sure, and if you're a creative person of any kind, you will know that there's a point at which you could always do more. You could always make it better.

Lesson 5

Living Beyond Perfection

Maybe those things weren't ever meant to be started anyway. Maybe you weren't meant to finish that project, or if you've got something that you have started and you haven't finished, could that be good enough as it is? And can you accept that? This is good enough as it is." And I invite you to find something today that you started that you think isn't finished, and either finish it or accept, okay, this is finished now. This is good enough, and move on because that is taking up energy. It's taking up space in your head.

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