EPISODE #48: Overcoming Perfectionism and Creating Psychological Safety Inside Yourself

All of us want to know that we are acceptable and worthy of love. Our need to be accepted is tied to our ancestor’s survival so our brains take rejection as a matter of life or death. This need to be a part of the tribe, to be acceptable, can get us into trouble though. If we try to earn our worth or strive to become acceptable it can put us on a never ending hamster wheel of working to achieve perfection. This was Mel Burt-Gracik’s life for many years and it left her in burnout and low self-regard. Slowly but surely she regained her sense of self and grew to embrace the belief that she was enough and full of worth exactly as she was. Learn about how perfectionism shows up, strategies for undoing perfectionism’s grip in your life, and simple steps for building a warm and loving relationship with yourself.

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Mel has spent her 13 year career in Leadership Development and this is the vision she strives to create with every Flourish client. After a stint of burnout tied to her crippling perfectionism, Mel was living and working from the opposite of that description. Learning to accept and love herself exactly as she was took some time. Through the journey Mel learned that psychological safety at work has to start within each individual. This is where she begins with her clients, Flourish For You, LLC helps businesses increase their employee engagement by co-creating with them a work culture focused on the strengths of their greatest asset: their human capital. Mel helps teams work well together by focusing on their natural talents and the workplace needs that accompany them. Utilizing Gallup’s 12: The Elements of Great Managing, she helps supervisors learn and implement the skills top managers possess all of which honor the human needs we each possess when we bring our whole selves to work everyday. In addition to StrengthsFinder, Mel holds certifications in Meyers Briggs Type Indicator and Emotional Intelligence EQ-i & EQ360.