Toxic achievement culture

This Isn't Therapy... it's the final episode of the season where we cover co-regulation and passive aggressive texts. Through a deep dive into the concept of co-regulation and a submission from a lovely listener about passive aggressive texts, Jake and Simon do their best to weav ...  Show more

This Isn't Therapy... it's a convo about friendship crushes and the social milestones. Simon discusses a reddit post about a friendship crush and Jake teaches the lovely listeners about the social milestones: latch, leap, and launch!Asking for a Friend: https://forms.gle/LofZNaNzG ...  Show more

Join us in unraveling the pressure cooker of modern achievement culture and discovering a healthier, happier definition of success with Jennifer Breheny Wallace. Her new book, Never Enough: When Ac ...

In this episode, award-winning Harvard-educated journalist and researcher Jenny Wallace is here to discuss “toxic achievement” and the toxic pressure that makes you feel that no matter what you do or what level of success you achieve, it will never be enough.

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Do you ever feel like no matter how much you achieve, it’s never enough? In this episode, we’re talking about the pressure to succeed, the struggle to celebrate wins, and why so many of us feel like our goals are obligations rather than choices.We break down how high expectations ...  Show more

In this week's episode we discuss the curse of being an overachiever. Society celebrates us for our successes, for our ability to work hard, push ourselves and constantly be the best. But this sometimes has contradictory consequences whereby the more we invest in our achieveme ...