Recovery from the Need to Be Perfect with Gabby Pritts

Like so many of us, Change coach Gabby Pritts lived for a long time with a misunderstanding about where her experience came from. This led to her developing the unwanted habit of needing to be perfect so that she could be safe. And this focus on perfection led to some disordered eating.Thankfully she came across the inside-out understanding and began to question her thoughts. She now helps her clients to see the innate wisdom within themselves. Gabby Pritts was born and raised in a South Texas Bordertown. She has always enjoyed the outdoors and being active and later became more serious about fitness through marathon trainings and runs. This lead to her stories of struggle. Gabby got caught up in how she thought life should look. Disordered eating, obsessive compulsions, and anxiety came to the forefront. She tried it all to help alleviate and cope: traditional therapy, coaches, online programs, supplements, and diets. Some worked for a while, but so often the struggles and habits came flooding in again, sometimes even worse. Then she came across a podcast with Dr Amy Johnson who spoke about becoming habit free with no willpower. Dr. Johnson said we are innately healthy, and our thoughts, habits, and addictions are a way for our mind to help us. Gabby decided to learn how to share this understanding through Dr Amy Johnson’s Change Coach Certification Program.You can find Gabby Pritts at GabbyPritts.com.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* On the exhaustion created by trying to be perfect * How disordered eating was an outward expression of that quest for perfection * The power of questioning our negative thoughts about ourselvesResources Related to this Episode* My book, It’s Not About the Food * The Little School of Big Change * Angus and Rohini RossTranscript of Interview with Gabby PrittsAlexandra: Gabby Pritts, welcome to Unbroken.Gabby: It’s a pleasure to be here with you. Alexandra: It’s so great to have you here. Tell us about a little bit about your journey, your background and how you came across the three principles.Gabby: You can go in so many ways as far as someone’s background is concerned, but for the purpose of this podcast, and the people may be listening to it my background is your typical child that grew up with a certain set of ideas of how things should be and coming to realize that sometimes, a lot of times, things aren’t the way that you thought they were going to be. And just trying to figure it all out. I grew up in a not-so-typical home. I grew up with a couple of aunts, and my mom was there and a couple of brothers. My mom remarried eventually, and there was a lot of step-siblings. And that didn’t work out too well. So I went back with my aunt and was raised by them. My mom was still in the picture. But she wasn’t living with me. So at an early age, I didn’t have her. But I did have a lot of love. I will say that I still had my brothers and I had my aunts. Growing up practicing Roman Catholic, there was a lot of rule and regulation involved in the home. And so things were the way they need to be because that’s the way things were, and you don’t question things. Well, I questioned a lot of things early on, and I challenged ideas, I challenged everything I was the kid that always asked why and would not stop asking why. So eventually, still having that in me, that innate,