Why you’re going about recovering from perfectionism all wrong
Stop murdering your village of weirdos.
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Happy Sunday, Soothers. The idea for this week’s Soother percolated in my brain after reading this (as per usual) excellent advice essay from Heather Havrilesky at Ask Polly (it may be subscribers only). It’s worth a read but the issue boils down to this fact: the reader realizes she is dealing with perfectionism, and it’s impacted her life in so many negative ways, and now she’s trying to stop being so perfectionistic. Of course, the only problem is that SHE MUST STOP BEING SO PERFECTIONISTIC!!! Which is, of course, itself…perfectionism.
Havrilesky catches on to this right away, leaping in with this paragraph:
Wow! Do you see what you just did? You took your current challenge — to accept yourself and embrace the present moment — and turned it into an…
