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I'm Regina Barber, in for Marielle Segarra.
Are you putting something off?
Maybe paying some bills, making that doctor's appointment a work project that you're dreading?
Am I giving you anxiety?
Just reminding you about it.
It's easy to procrastinate, even when you know you're better off doing the task on time.
In this episode of Life Kit, journalist TK Dutez talks with Anastasia Loughlin, a licensed therapist and recovering procrastination.
Procrastinator.
They'll cover what procrastination is, how it's sometimes linked with perfection, fomo, you know, fear of missing out.
And they'll give you strategies to help combat it.
Today.
Let'S just jump into the main thing of it.
So how do you define procrastination?
So procrastination is typically a dysfunctional way of coping with unwanted emotions and feelings of anxiety, depressive feelings, self doubt, or even fear.
Chronic procrastination is an inability to regulate negative or fearful emotions or feelings.
Okay, so I was coming into this thinking that procrastination was really literally just the act of putting things off, but it's.
You're saying it's the act of putting things off because I'm struggling with an internal feeling.
Oh, absolutely.
Yikes.