Bonus Episode 013 | Overcoming perfectionism when learning languages and training our dogs

Bonus Episode 013 | Overcoming perfectionism when learning languages and training our dogs

Being perfectionistic is a badge we often wear with pride, but perfectionism mostly doesn’t serve us.

It doesn’t serve us if we’re learning new languages and it doesn’t serve us when we are training our dogs.

Have you ever refrained from saying something or asking a question because you didn’t know how to word it quite right?

Do you know you would make more progress if you didn’t care about getting things perfect but you don’t know how to get over that perfectionism?

If you’re a self-proclaimed perfectionist, you may want to listen to this episode.

I try to not only state the obvious but to also give you some actionable steps as to how you can start to curb your inner perfectionist.

It’s all about not standing yourself into a car (and if that sounds weird you will just have to listen to the episode).

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022 | Logan, Nobu, and Mona, on getting a new puppy after going through behavioral euthanasia

022 | Logan, Nobu, and Mona, on getting a new puppy after going through behavioral euthanasia

TRIGGER WARNING: behavioral euthanasia

The title could have said:
on dealing with haters and threats, or
on processing grief, or
on the power of friendship and love from both friends and strangers, or
on paying it forward and helping others by sharing their story.

Logan, like so many of us, got way more than they signed up for when they rescued Nobu who was a victim of the dog meat trade.
Not just in terms of having to deal with unpredictable aggression, but also when it came to becoming a trending topic on a subReddit to ban Pitbulls (which by the way, Nobu wasn’t even a Pitbull).

After Nobu was behaviorally euthanized, Logan got another dog, the adorable Mona, a cute American Staffordshire terrier from a reputable breeder.

We talk about everything Nobu, Mona and especially both the devastating impact social media can have on the one hand and the amazing positives that it can bring as well.
As one of Logan’s followers aptly put it: Mona is going to have the best internet family ever!

Links:

Find Logan and Mona on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mybravemona/
or on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mybravemona

Maybe the criticism you receive isn't as dramatic as what Logan got, but you would still like to be able to deal with it better.

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Bonus Episode 012 | A different way of looking at training mistakes and regret

Bonus Episode 012 | A different way of looking at training mistakes and regret

Do you sometimes feel yourself end up living in a place of regret about things you wish you had done differently for and with your dog?
Are you extra hard on yourself for having made mistakes?
Do you go to the place of what ifs a lot?

Then this episode is for you.

I talk about what regret is and most importantly about the thought error you are probably making when it comes to what specifically you are blaming yourself for.

Plus I give some practical tips as to how you can stop beating yourself up so much. (I also explain why you should stop!)

 

Would you like to stop beating yourself up?

Because that’s step 1 to a better relationship with your dog and yourself. Get on a free consult with me to see if my coaching program is a good fit for you.

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021 | Ruff Around the Edges with Sara Rafai and Kiwi, this Dubai team teaches us the importance of communication

021 | Ruff Around the Edges with Sara Rafai and Kiwi, this Dubai team teaches us the importance of communication

What do most guardians of our podcast dogs have in common? They go down the dog training rabbit hole, learning all there is to learn about dogs and dog training. At some point most of them have the thought:  “I might as well become a dog trainer now!”

Sara is no different.

We talk about that, but also about the importance of communication in her journey with Kiwi, a desert mix, as Dubai’s strays are often referred to.

What made her discontinue training with the balanced trainer that had been recommended to her? What was it about how PPG accredited Dubai trainer Aimee of @pawfectbehaviourme described her services that made it easy for Sara to switch over to force free training?

Then there was COVID. The strict lockdown in Dubai was a blessing in disguise for Kiwi and for Sara and her husband too. The latter proved instrumental for the mental health of the whole human-dog family.

His understanding attitude when Sara explained how anxiety-inducing walking Kiwi had become for her and their open lines of communication helped in turning that anxiety around.

He showed up in the background during our recording and jokingly asked Sara whether she was only saying good things about him. If you listen to this episode I imagine you’ll agree with me that that’s a resounding YES.

Scroll down for all the links!

 

Links:

Find Sara here (and consider booking her services as a trainer if you’re in Dubai): @kiwiskronicles

Aimee, Sara’s trainer and mentor, a PPG accredited force-free dog trainer in Dubai: @pawfectbehaviourme

Other Instagram accounts that get a shoutout in this episode:

@dax_theangrydog

@the_toby_project

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