When your Mental Fitness tools stop working. Permission to rest without guilt. What happens when every practice you've built - journaling, breathing exercises, morning routines, tiny promises - suddenly feels impossible? This raw episode was recorded during my own Mental Fitness struggle. Sometimes the most radical act of Mental Fitness isn't pushing through. It's stopping. Not quitting. Not giving up. Just pausing. If you are experiencing exhaustion, burnout, or struggling during a hard seas...
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When your Mental Fitness tools stop working. Permission to rest without guilt. What happens when every practice you've built - journaling, breathing exercises, morning routines, tiny promises - suddenly feels impossible? This raw episode was recorded during my own Mental Fitness struggle. Sometimes the most radical act of Mental Fitness isn't pushing through. It's stopping. Not quitting. Not giving up. Just pausing. If you are experiencing exhaustion, burnout, or struggling during a hard seas...
When Self-Care Becomes Self-Criticism: Breaking the Wellness Perfectionism Cycle
The Lulu Essey Podcast
23 minutes
1 month ago
When Self-Care Becomes Self-Criticism: Breaking the Wellness Perfectionism Cycle
When self-care turns into self-criticism. From sleep score stress to fitness tracker guilt and the quiet weight of wellness burnout, this episode explores how health tracking and optimization can quietly become another form of self-attack—and how to reclaim self-care as compassion instead of a report card. In this episode, I share why I returned my unopened Whoop band and how wellness perfectionism is creating health-tracking anxiety for millions. From sleep score stress to fitness tracker ...
The Lulu Essey Podcast
When your Mental Fitness tools stop working. Permission to rest without guilt. What happens when every practice you've built - journaling, breathing exercises, morning routines, tiny promises - suddenly feels impossible? This raw episode was recorded during my own Mental Fitness struggle. Sometimes the most radical act of Mental Fitness isn't pushing through. It's stopping. Not quitting. Not giving up. Just pausing. If you are experiencing exhaustion, burnout, or struggling during a hard seas...
