Middle Finger to Perfection Jenna Teague + Ashley Looker

We’re diving deep into self-care today, fam, and honestly, this conversation couldn’t have come at a better time.

Just to be clear, we’re not talking about the Instagram-picture-perfect-$500-investment kind of self-care.

We’re talking real deal, what-works-best-for-you-not-someone-else self-care.

Our guest this week, Christy Tending, is an activist, educator, writer, and self-care mentor who helps people-pleasers like us create sustainable, anti-capitalist self-care in service of collective liberation. Dayum!

Get ready for a big ol’ permission slip to own your inherent power and get a little inconvenient.

So, we’ve made it to the 10th (or 100th) month of 2020, and the hits just keep coming.

The effects of allthethings — COVID, quarantine, police violence and protests, the election — are compounding, and our standard coping go-to’s just aren’t cutting it anymore.

We need to switch up our practices, so pop in your earbuds and get the scoop on what exactly is getting us through right now.

Us perfectionists, people pleasers, artists, creatives, and empaths, we’re sensitive souls, and we often tend to gravitate toward service-based work as part of our worthiness seeking.

In order to avoid one big B on our path of service, burnout, we need lots of the other big B, boundaries.

Today’s guest, witch and coach Cait Byrnes, is here to teach all of us sensitive souls how to harness the power of the moon and its energy to supercharge our healing and personal growth.

Get ready to learn about all of Cait’s favorite woo practices, which are just another set of tools for self-reflection.

Always. Be. Upleveling.

Always be striving.

Reaching for more, more, MORE.

That’s the perfectionist way, right?

Can we focus on our own growth without being perfectionistic, radical, or rigid?

Is that even possible?

In this episode, we explore ways to uplevel with more ease, sustainability, and flow.

Navigating relationships is never easy, but if you throw some perfectionism in the mix?

Maybe a dash of people pleasing?

Plus a little conflict avoidance on the side?

Well, now you’re talking about a bit of a minefield.

Today’s guest, Certified Sex and Relationship Therapist Caitlin Cantor, is here to help us show up messily, imperfectly, and even badly in relationships, avoid overcontrolling, and have the hard conversations we would so desperately rather sidestep.

Get ready to feel safe and seen, learn how to get your needs met, grow together with your partner, and have a satisfyingly sexy sex life.

Where do I sign up? ‍♀️

You know that feeling.

The one where nothing is working, no matter what you try — or how hard.

Nothing helps.

Nothing shifts.

Nothing makes it any easier, makes you feel any better.

You feel hopeless.

Helpless

Anxious

Scared

And you don’t know what the hell to do about it.

Before you scream or tear your hair out (Well, scream if you need to.), let’s take half an hour to ride the waves together.