Moving the Goalpost: Keeping Up With Unrelenting Standards - Complex Trauma Prisons

Tim explores how the influence of Complex Trauma may cause you to set unrealistic expectations.

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One of the prisons created by Complex Trauma is Unrelenting Standards - believing that if you just try harder, and set higher standards for yourself, that you will succeed and be satisfied. But it keeps you in a prison; it keeps you in a loop that feeds shame. How did this prison develop and how do we break free from it?

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Life traps / Schema / CPTSD Prisons
02:00 Unhealthy adaptations become life traps
09:30 Getting into Life Traps
13:35 Intro to Unrelenting Standards
17:30 Limitations are frustrating
20:12 It's never good enough
21:18 Quiz - 10 Questions to Ask Yourself
23:00 3 Variations of Unrelenting Standards
24:55 Where do unrelenting standards come from?
29:55 This 'solution' does not solve Shame
32:07 Building life on a lie
33:34 The facade of 'having it all together'
36:00 Pitfalls in recovery
44:00 Healing and change
48:30 Conclusion - 12 Needs