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Messy

“You can spend your effort and energy endeavoring to prove yourself to yourself as well as to others. Whether or not the payoff you receive from that effort is worth it or not remains a question. Instead of expending all of that precious internal resource of energy on endeavoring to prove you are valid, validate… Continue reading Messy

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Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist

Perfectionism.  The overwhelming desire to get everything just right….perfect.  Most of my life I’ve struggled with unrealistic expectations I’ve set for myself.  I would judge myself too harshly when I felt I didn’t measure up to some ideal.  I was consumed with it and many times I didn’t even know I was doing this to myself… Continue reading Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist