Do You Suffer From Good Girl Syndrome?

What is Good Girl Syndrome and How Do You Know if You Suffer From It? There is no doubt that from the time we are born, being a Good Girl is instilled in us. It’s in every conversation and every parenting guideline. We move through the world teaching girls to be good. (Boys as well, but under a different set of oppressive Good Child expectations.) This is a fine line in parenting but as you grow up and become an adult it’s easy to feel the Good Child conflict within and it may be showing up for you more and more as you get older and start to see how being The Good Girl is exhausting and driving your perfectionism stress. Read this episode here: Sign up for the newsletter here: https://shawnfink.com/brave-yes-newsletter/ Resources mentioned in this episode: Overworking https://shawnfink.com/the-exhausting-politics-of-overworking-and-overdoing/ Perfectionism: https://shawnfink.com/destruction-of-perfectionism/