3 Shifts To Loosen the Grip of Perfectionism Without Losing Yourself

The programming of perfectionism runs deep—and it's smart. Because you're smart. It's not some foreign part of you or some alien descended into your system—it's the part of you driven to be better, do better, and live better.

It's nobility, loyalty, honesty, and all kinds of other virtues tangled together, and then drained of any real compassion for the moments in life when you're not perfectly everything.

Even writing about perfectionism triggers my own…