Raised to Perform: The Long-Term Impact of Performance-Based Childhoods

About this episode

The episode discusses how performance-based childhoods impact adult self-worth and ambition.

How early conditioning shapes adult ambition, burnout, and self-worth. Growing up under a never good enough parenting approach, pushed these women to over perform, yet as a consequence have an incredibly low self esteem, caused by an incredibly harsh self evaluation. The inner critic never stops until complete exhaustion. @drschwank @unesurcent

People in this episode

Hosts: sesschwank, drschwank

Topics covered

• performance-based childhoods
• adult ambition
• burnout
• self-worth
• self-esteem
• inner critic

Keywords

• performance
• childhood
• self-esteem
• burnout
• inner critic
• ambition

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Organizations: unesurcent

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