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If you’ve been stuck in “not good enough,” “not healed enough,” or “not doing it right,” this episode is for you.

In this re-aired 2022 Dear Gabby Q&A, I’m sharing a principle that has supported me in every chapter of my life—recovery, relationships, motherhood, writing books, building a business, and healing:

Progress, not perfection.

Perfectionism may look like high standards, but it often creates shutdown, pressure, and fear. Progress is different. Progress is momentum. Progress is expansive. And when you train your mind to notice progress, you create more space for creativity, resilience, and miracles.

In this episode, I coach listeners who are:

  • doing deep trauma work and feeling overwhelmed by what’s coming up
  • navigating relationship growth and wanting change without expecting instant perfection
  • learning how to offer themselves grace while still staying committed to healing

If you’ve been demanding too much of yourself—or measuring your life by what isn’t “fixed” yet—this conversation will help you soften, reset, and come back to what’s real: the steps you’re taking, the healing you’ve begun, and the progress you can celebrate today.

In this video, you’ll learn:

  • Why perfectionism shuts down creative flow—and progress creates momentum
  • How to work with fear and overwhelm during trauma healing without pushing too fast
  • A “slow and steady” approach to transformation that’s actually sustainable
  • How to grow in your relationship without blame, pressure, or unrealistic expectations
  • Simple ways to celebrate your wins so your nervous system learns safety and trust

Let today be your permission slip to let go of perfect—and commit to progress.

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the #1 reason you’re stuck (and the simple shift to progress) i dear gabby

 [00:00:00] The following podcast is a dear media production.

Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started.

Welcome back to Dear Gabby, my friends. Today I'm sharing a conversation from the Dear Gabby archives. It's something very special and very relevant right now. If you've been feeling stuck in self-judgment or perfectionism or the belief that you should be further along by now. This is your episode. I was actually just having a conversation about this with a friend of mine who was like, I feel like I should be so much further along.

And I was like, I'm gonna take that episode. I'm gonna rero air it because you need it. And I know my listeners do too. And in this conversation we explore this practice that has guided me through every single season of my [00:01:00] life. It's choosing progress over perfection. This is something that really was instilled in me early in my sobriety.

It's progress rather than perfection. And this mindset that supported me, like I said, through 21 years of recovery now, it's helped me build my career. It's helped me really take my life one step at a time, and it's also helped me really deepen my relationships. Allowed me to keep showing up even when things felt really messy or if things felt uncertain or incomplete.

And so you're gonna hear me share how perfectionism really quietly shuts us down and how it disconnects us from our creative flow and our confidence and the momentum that we may be blocking when we're in that place of perfectionism. And I'm also gonna teach you how small consistent steps can create.

Real lasting change. And we're gonna also take some listener questions and apply this practice to the healing work and relationships and personal growth in a very, very honest and grounded way. So as you [00:02:00] listen, I wanna invite you to notice where you might be holding yourself to really impossible standards.

And I want you to think about the ways that you might be leaning into perfectionism or self attack or judgment. And then I want you to think about. Where you could be offering yourself some more self-compassion. So this episode is not about pushing harder or fixing yourself. Take a deep breath because the episode is actually about softening.

It's about trusting the process. It's about allowing progress rather than perfection. And so again, let's take a nice deep breath. Let's relax our shoulders, relax your jaw. Allow this episode to remind you that you don't have to be perfect to move forward. Let's begin.

Today's topic is a practice. It's a life practice that has given me a lot of grace. It's allowed me to create [00:03:00] more creative space. It's given me the opportunity to opportunity create miracles in my life. I believe it's actually one of my greatest qualities for success. I remember when I was first getting sober, and in my case I went to these meetings and in my meetings they would say over and over and it was written all over the walls, progress, not perfection.

And I loved that so deeply because it then allowed me to not have to worry about how perfect I was that day. Instead to celebrate, you know what? I have another day, clean and sober. I called my sponsor, celebrate whatever the small action was that I had taken towards my bigger dream, my bigger goal, which was being a woman that lived a sober life.

And that message of practicing progress rather than perfection is something that I've taken into every corner of my life as a mom, as a business owner, as a human in the world, as a wife, [00:04:00] as an author, everything I do in my life. I show up for it with that mentality, and I can give you some examples. You know, absolute only way that I would be able to write nine books in 11 years is if I was willing to practice progress rather than perfection.

If I had held myself to the standard of having the absolute perfect literary experience and knowing everything I could about writing the most beautiful sentence and telling the best stories. I would never have even started, I would never have even taken that first book deal. I would've completely self-sabotaged.

The same goes in my marriage when we seem like we're, you know, going through some stuff, which all couples do, instead of feeling down about it and feeling like this isn't perfect enough. I celebrate the moments of miracles. I celebrate the progress. I celebrate how far we've come. My marriage is a truly miraculous relationship.

We've done so [00:05:00] much work together and I celebrate that every day. Same goes with all of the relationships in my life, my relationships to my team. When we look and we say, oh, this could be better. We need to uplevel here in the same breath, I'm looking at it and I'm saying, but I'm also gonna really celebrate how much progress we've made.

So when we live life looking at the world through the lens of progress rather than perfection, that's when we start to let ourselves off the hook more. That's when we can really give ourselves permission to let go have some grace, to not expect ourselves to be in that place of perfection. It said that perfection is the enemy of the good.

Perfect is the enemy of the good. And so the simplicity here is to just begin by giving yourself permission to be imperfect, to give yourself permission to focus [00:06:00] on the progress rather than the perfection. The moment that we lean into that progress rather than that perfection, we actually empower ourselves to carry on.

We empower ourselves to keep doing better work. We empower ourselves to show up more in our life, and that's the same for creative project as it is with how we relate to our loved ones. It's the same for how we perceive ourself in every corner of our life. So taking on this mentality of. Walking through life, focusing on progress rather than perfection.

I want you to ask yourself right now, how different would you be if you let go of the need to be perfect and celebrated the progress? How different would the situations in your life be? How different would you feel about yourself as a parent or as a person in the workforce or as a friend or as a lover?

What would your attitude be? [00:07:00] I believe that my. Desire my deep, deep desire to live with this and assume this attitude in all situations has really given me years on my life because I spend so many less hours ruminating about what should have happened or how I should have done things differently, or how I can make something more perfect and instead I keep focusing on the progress.

So everything we put our energy towards, we create more of. In this instance, the more we infuse energy of progress, progress, progress, the more elevated our life will be. I want you to consider some of these actionable ideas for this topic, and I'll bring these in as I check in with our guests today. Step one, just choosing one small action that you can take right now that'll move you closer to just progress rather than perfection.

So for instance, if you're working on a project that you think needs to be finished. Maybe you do one small thing on it today and let go of the finish line. Or [00:08:00] maybe you just take a moment to look at your marriage or your relationships and say, well, here are all the good things we're doing. This is all the progress we've had, rather than where I think we should be.

Then I want you to just really let go and allow, let go and allow that progress mentality to take over for just one day. Focus on that area of your life that you've chosen. Through the lens of progress rather than perfection. So let's say you're, you know, working on a project that you haven't completed, but you're just letting go of that due date and you're just focusing on the progress.

See how it feels that day, again, with the relationship instead of just being mad that things aren't the way you want them to be. Maybe make a list of all the things that you've done in the relationship that have created such great progress in any area of your life where you feel like you're trying to be perfect or you're trying to find perfection.

Focus for today. On what progress feels like. Focus on celebrating the progress. Focus on leaning into the progress. Focus on letting the progress be the priority rather [00:09:00] than the perfection. Big topic today. So excited to be able to bring this to my dear Gabby guests and see how this applies to you. I see so many people stuck in that perfection mentality that pretty much just shuts them down, puts them into freeze mode, and cuts off the creative flow.

Progress is expansive. Progress is energizing. Progress has momentum. Let's talk about that today.
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Hello Gabby. Recently, I felt the need to start reading your book may cause miracles, which is really interesting for me. It's something I avoided for a long time because I grew up in a very. Suppressive religion, and so even the word miracles was very triggering for me.

Totally.  I'm currently on day three and I'm working on witnessing my fears and trying to see love [00:15:00] instead, but I am finding myself really stuck in my head and hard to get back into the present moment because of some of the fears that I'm witnessing. I had therapy yesterday, went into some deep EMDR, which was really helpful.

I have a great therapist who was able to bring me back to the present and bring me back to the room, but it still tends to follow me throughout the day, and I'm wondering how I, even on an individual level, and focus on progress and not perfection and let that clear my mind. In the moment. 

Beautiful. Well, a few things. First, I think for this episode, the book I would recommend of mine to the listeners is May Cause Miracles because it's a 40 day guidebook and it's subtle shifts for radical change. It's not be perfect overnight. Yeah. It's do these small [00:16:00] actions towards that miraculous change. Particularly for this topic, there's no greater opportunity to practice progress rather than perfection because it's one small, right action daily towards your bigger goal, which is actually my advice for you.

Instead of feeling like you have to rip off the bandaid and go into the darkness and figure out all the fears right now, why don't you take it a little slower? 

Okay? Why don't you give yourself some grace progress, not perfection. The perfection part wants to be like, let me just get rid of this right away now.

No. Like, this is a journey. If you've read happy days, you know, for me it's been like 30 something years of just committed trauma work, and it's slow and steady, and I always say, I learned this in aa. I wish you a slow recovery because that means that it's really sinking in. So instead of being in that mindset of, I'm gonna face into all the fears right here, right now.

I want you to focus on the small fears. Start to practice the principles [00:17:00] with these issues in your life that are less charged for you. When you do that, you start to build a new muscle. You start to build, like we say, it may cause miracles, the miracle mindset. 

Mm-hmm. And as soon as you start to develop that miracle mindset with the help of this book and keeping it simple, you will then allow that miracle mindset, that love voice within you.

To be the louder voice, to be the leader and to help guide you as you start to safely and courageously open up to the bigger stuff. 

 I think the best therapists are the ones that don't push you to go too fast too soon. So you even wanna have that conversation with your therapist, like, you know, I'm leaning into this and I don't wanna ignore it, I'm gonna bring it up here.

Mm-hmm. But I don't know if I'm ready to go there fully. Yeah. Because remember. By addressing the way you act at work, you're actually addressing your [00:18:00] childhood wounds. Right. Especially if these are traumatic wounds that we're dealing with. We don't actually have to face the inciting incident. We can address all of the ways that we act now because we're still reacting the same way we did 30, 40 years ago when we had that inciting incident.

Mm-hmm. If I address how I am in the moment with my team. I'm addressing how I reacted when I was six years old. Because it's the same way I was protecting myself. 

So with that, I'm wondering if you're starting to realize, or if I'm starting to realize in the moment at work or in my business or whatever, that the fears and the things that I'm going through are connected to those childhood parts of me that are very deep.

How should I manage focusing, like making things, um. Less deep in taking more time with that because at this point they are bringing up those things which are a lot deeper, and [00:19:00] so my brain does go there. 

Yeah. Yeah. And that's where it becomes overwhelming in the moment and takes me out of the present moment. Yes. Got it. Understand, you used a word manage, used the word manage. Mm-hmm. Manage is comparable. We can use it as the same as protector. Right? So these child parts of ourselves that are super traumatized and wounded are usually under locking key. Mm-hmm. But when they start to come out, whether they're triggered out or they come out casually because we're doing therapeutic work, the managers a k, a, the parts of us that are protective start to get really up.

Right. And those are the, the fear, big one, big protector. So instead of. Ignoring the younger parts that are coming up, I want you to work with the protector parts. So when you notice that fear of these parts in that moment, right then, right there, start to speak [00:20:00] to yourself, neck to yourself, become curious about what you need in the moment.

Be compassionate towards the fear because it's revealing to you that some stuff is coming up and you can get some centered and a little bit calm by saying to yourself like. I don't have to face all of this at once. I can take it slow. And this is once again, leaning into that self-energy, which is the same as the miracle mindset and may cause miracles.

It's letting the miracle mindset, the self with a capital S, be the leader. And when you lean into that miracle mindset, that's when the fear voice can relax. So you can then coexist with, okay, I am living my life over here and all my childhood shit's coming up over here and I'm doing some work on it. And I also wanna go to the movies tonight and I wanna be able to, you know, take a swim and I wanna be able to come back to that in therapy next week.

And you can begin to sort of co-exist with [00:21:00] the work rather than have to shut it down. I also wanna acknowledge that anyone who's doing deep trauma work. That period of your life, it can be very scary, it can be reactivating. You can feel at times that you're almost embodying the experiences. Anyone that's not familiar with EMDR, go back to our episode on EMDR with Tammy Centi.

It's an excellent episode. Go listen to it. Great trauma therapy. So you're doing everything right, which is doing the EMDR. The main thing is, is to start to get into an a dialogue with self letting, self letting the miracle mindset be the leader. And that's why may cause miracles is actually the perfect book for you right now.

God guided you to that book. You're gonna get into gratitude. You're on day three. You're gonna start to get into the gratitude. You're gonna get into that miracle mindset shift. Each day of every week is gonna encourage you to lean into that love. So this fear that's coming up is real. We're not going to whitewash it or pretend like it's not there.

[00:22:00] We're gonna bring it to that loving presence within, and that loving presence is gonna say, Hey, we can cake it slow. We don't have to remember everything at once. We've got a therapist I've gut may cause miracles right now. I am gonna take it one step at a time. I'm gonna take a little time off work at this moment, or I'm gonna make my social life a little bit more relaxed at this time.

And I do advise that. Just on another note from one trauma survivor and I'm put using the word trauma. Is that what you identify with?  Absolutely. Yeah. 

Okay. From one trauma survivor to another. My advice as a friend to you right here, right now, not as a therapist. I'm not a therapist, but I'm Gabby here talking to you is in this specific season of your life, which will change.

The seasons change in this particular season of your life where the stuff is coming up. I want you to eat really well. I want you to move your body. I want you to get a lot more sleep than you usually need. I want you to give yourself a tremendous [00:23:00] amount of grace. Celebrate the small stuff. Only spend time with people who feel nurturing and soothing for you.

Set up some boundaries with the folks that trigger you, particularly the ones that may be connected to the trauma. Just put your boundaries and your self-care at a very high priority now more than ever, because these fragmented pieces of who you are are now being put back into the puzzle, and that can feel really scary and dysregulating.

So just go slow. Simplify your life as much as you can. Hmm.  Simplify your life as much as you can right now. Okay. Celebrate the breakfast you had in the morning, you know, and like scale back the, the social engagements, just take it slow, I think may cause miracles [00:24:00] Really is your book right now, because Exactly like I said.

Just to go deep into the stuff may not be this moment. This is your season for practicing a miracle mindset. Slow and steady wins the race. Taking your time, titrating in. Coming out. In out. You don't wanna rip off the lid of a pressure cooker. 

You wanna let it simmer? Yeah. Excellent. Thank you so much. Really good work. 41. I've decided that we're fine, but things needed to change. I didn't like where we were headed, and so we're now in marriage counseling and we're trying to get better because I basically said things need to change. I'm not okay with how we are. Good for you. I dunno what happened, but at 41 I've got a backbone.

So we're doing that and I think my, I think it's hard for me to really focus on not being perfect all the time and try to just celebrate the progression that we're going through because it seems like. We do the [00:25:00] work and we're good and we're good, and then all of a sudden we take like 10 steps back. And I feel like since we're in it, it's what happens.

I kind of try to take that mindset of this happens. It's what? It's, um, but one of us usually gets on the, why aren't we better? Why, you know, we get stuck in that perfection role, I think. 

Mm. Mm-hmm. Okay. So. First of all, congratulations for getting into marriage counseling. I believe that all relationships require a therapist, all intimate relationships.

It's like a must have. Not everyone can have the privilege of having that. So maybe you read some books on relationships or do whatever you can to really speak to progress rather than perfection in relationships. What I wanna say to you is that. First and foremost, right here, right now. Let's do a big round of applause for you for at 41 [00:26:00] years young noticing this isn't what I want.

And having a partner who had the bravery and the courage and the willingness to say, all right, let's get some counseling major. That's not even progress. That's like jumping head first progress. That's it. Miraculous progress. Bravo. Celebrate yourself. Feel into that. I want you to really feel my pride for you right here, right now.

Massive. When it comes to intimate relationships, our ability to lean into the mentality of progress rather than perfection is our superpower. What it means is we. Are going to have a slow, steady adjustment. What happens in our most intimate relationships when we're married, when we're have a lover, whatever it might be, [00:27:00] is that we attract into our life the people who are going to trigger us most and sometimes.

That's not always the case. You know, sometimes people have like very simple marriages, but no matter what, what we attract into our life often is a reflection, a mirror reflection of what it is that's disowned within ourselves. And so what we're gonna consistently come up against in these relationships, no matter how awesome they are, how difficult they might be, we're gonna often come up with the partner being that perfect mirror to reflect back to us what it is that we need to heal.

And so. Just an example, maybe the partner is really reactive all the time and the other partner can't handle reactivity, and so they just go and hide, right? But that ability to handle people's big emotions is what that person wants to develop in themselves. And so if you just start to continue to notice how his behavior is a beautiful mirror for you to develop the underdeveloped parts of yourself, you can, instead of saying, oh, we fell backwards, we can say, oh great.

[00:28:00] It's another opportunity to grow. Oh, great. I can stop pointing the finger and I can place that mirror in front of myself and say, what is it that I need to work on right here, right now? When we fully accept that this is about, yes, the collective progress, but most importantly, taking care of our own side of the street.

What is my progress today? How can I show up to myself in this relationship today and my partner in this relationship today? That's where the miracles occur because the second that you start getting into his part and his work. And sort of judging his work. That's when you get right into the perfectionism.

That's when you get into, why isn't it this way? Why aren't you this way? The only thing you can control, my love is yourself. The only thing you can control is the way you perceive him, the way you show up in the relationship, the way that you experience your experiences with him. The more that you develop these parts of yourself that are more healthy, the more that you bring that self energy into the dialogue, the more that you feel that compassion and that curiosity and that courage, [00:29:00] the easier it'll be for him to identify it in himself.

So stop focusing on what he's doing. Focus on your side of the street, focus on your progress, and ask the same of him. 

That makes a lot of sense. It does. Ask the same of him because you know, say to him, listen man, you know, we're both in this together. And while this is us, it's also us individually. We both are having this big journey here of changing historical patterns that make us who we are as humans and affect us as we are as partners.

And so while there's work for us to do together, there's also transformational work we must do on ourselves. So let's focus on the progress that we can make within our own selves so that we can then share that with each other. It's a journey, but listen, celebrate with him tonight. Go get a glass of wine or whatever you guys do to celebrate and say We're rock stars.

Gabby said, we're rock [00:30:00] stars 'cause we're doing the work. Any couple that's doing the work has a fighting chance of making it work. There you go. Nice job. 

Thank you so much. Stunning, stunning, stunning, stunning. It means a lot and it resonates so much with me right now. So, because there's times where I say to him, we're in the muck.
We're literally like, we're trenching through it. Like we have to put in the work. And it's just not gonna happen overnight. 

It's not gonna happen overnight. And when you notice that it's not working out between the two of you, when the moment that you think you wanna point the finger and blame. Point the finger back to you and say, what can I do?

What can I do? What do I need right now? Uh, what is this mirroring back to me? What progress can I make today? And then celebrate the moments. Celebrate the miracle moments. So let's say like you normally have a fight that lasts 48 hours, but now it lasts 24 hours. Like celebrate that or that you are able to laugh it off quicker.

Celebrate that. Okay? Celebrate the miraculous moments. [00:31:00] That's how we practice progress rather than perfection. Excellent, excellent work. Thank you so much. Thank you my love. When we make progress, our priority rather than perfection, we allow creative ideas to come forward. We relax into infinite possibilities.

We let ourselves off the hook. We give ourselves grace. We return to the part of ourself that is the love within the quality of us that is forgiving, compassionate, courageous, creative, connected in that place of progress rather than perfection. We establish a radical momentum that allows us to show up for the situations, goals, objectives, work, relationships in our life [00:32:00] with a very high vibe, positive attitude, vision forward, and a lot of love.

A lot of love. Give yourself this opportunity today to just check in. What area of my life could I bring in more progress perception rather than perfection perception? What area of my life can I let myself off the hook more? Focus on the progress rather than the perfection. Beautiful episode. Excellent work.

So we just spent this episode talking about how perfectionism is the ultimate enemy of the good, and it really shuts us down, our creative flow. It really blocks us from the connection to the universe, and it puts us into that freeze state. But the universe really doesn't need you to be perfect. It just needs you to stay in the flow of progress.

What I've learned over the years is [00:33:00] that when I stop obsessing over the finish line, I can start focusing on small daily right actions, and that's when real miracles begin to set in for me. And one of the ways that I've really helped myself get closer and closer to that consciousness is by going through my own 21 day Trust the universe challenge.

And so if you're stuck in that perfectionist loop or you're feeling like every outcome has to be forced or you're controlling the universe, I can guide you through a 21 day journey. Where you can really feel grounded and supported by the universe. And I'll guide you through lessons and meditations and journaling prompts.

And these will help you build unshakeable faith in the universe and trust that the universe really has your back. So you can go do the 21 day Trust the Universe Challenge right now at dear gabby.com/universe challenge. And before we go, I just wanna close by saying that I love you. And I'm proud of you, and there's so much grace when we start to release the need to be perfect.

And you can ask yourself right now, [00:34:00] where in my life can I release the need to be perfect and honor my progress today? You can leave me a comment and just let me know what your answer to that question is. Where in my life can I release the need to be perfect and honor my progress today? And I, I love you guys.

I really do, and I'm so grateful that you're here and you're listening. There's so much big stuff coming, so get psyched for more. Thank you for listening to my episode, and I love you subscribe. If you aren't, so you can just make sure you don't miss any of these conversations. And I'm just proud of you.
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