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Shadow PlaygroundAuthor: Ez Bridgman
Shadow Playground is a podcast focused on the enablers for living a life full of playful vitality, as well as the blockages -- conflict, fear, shame, shadow, judgment, being serious, norms, etc. -- that hold us back from unleashing our unfiltered playful selves. We look at how playfulness & shadow can actually co-exist beautifully together, for instance how we might bring a playful spirit to our most important & challenging moments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Genres: Personal Journals, Relationships, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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From Perfectionism to Self-expression with Kara Latta
Episode 4
Tuesday, 2 September, 2025
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY-Kara Latta is a Play & Mindset Coach and the founder of The Playful Warrior, a platform focused on helping high-achieving individuals overcome perfectionism and reconnect with their authentic selves through play. Using techniques like NLP, hypnotherapy, and EFT, Kara’s coaching programs encourage creativity, joy, and personal growth.LINKS: www.theplayfulwarrior.com PRACTICES: Soothe your body with gentle touch or self-talk to shift out of fear and return to a calm, logical state.Reassure your mind by gathering real-world examples that show taking risks, like being visible online, is survivable.Treat action as a playful experiment where trying, failing, and learning are all part of the process.Understand that being seen online is an important step toward growing your business.Mute people who discourage your self-expression and show up for the version of you that once needed permission to be free.Each month, choose one or two activities that generate income and genuinely light you up to stay aligned and energized.Start each day by tackling one important task that moves your work forward.IDEAS: Perfectionism is not about thinking you're perfect, but about never feeling good enough and using that to avoid judgment.As children, we often learn to value getting things right over expressing ourselves, which leads us to adapt in order to belong.Play helps us reconnect with our true selves and heal perfectionism by making the process more important than the outcome.Doing things that are aligned doesn't always feel easy, and challenge can still mean you're on the right path.When someone judges you, it usually reflects their own limitations or fears, not your value, and you can choose to respond with compassion.If you're being fully authentic, some rejection is inevitable, and if you're not being rejected at all, you may be hiding parts of yourself.Achievement that comes from play builds trust and self-love, while perfectionist achievement is driven by fear.Letting go of where you think you should be allows you to honour your own timeline and path.Perfectionism can also show up in healing, so it's important to offer yourself compassion instead of expecting to do personal growth perfectly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
