123. How Your Personality Traits Keep Your Nervous System Stuck

About this episode

This episode discusses how certain personality traits can contribute to chronic symptoms and emphasizes that these traits can be unlearned.

If you've ever caught yourself thinking "that's just me -> I'm an anxious person," or "I've always been a perfectionist, it's just how I am" -> this one's for you. In this episode, I'm walking you through the 6 personality traits that show up over and over again in people with chronic symptoms. Anxiousness. Pressure. Perfectionism. People pleasing. Catastrophizing. Black and white thinking. These aren't who you are. They're learned patterns. Which means they can be unlearned. I'm diggin...

People in this episode

Host: Grace Secker

Topics covered

• personality traits
• nervous system
• anxiety
• perfectionism
• chronic symptoms
• learned patterns

Keywords

• anxiety
• perfectionism
• nervous system
• chronic symptoms
• personality traits
• learned patterns

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