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"Hi, I am Saige, and I am a Perfectionist."

I think that if I had just started my first therapy session with that, we could have saved a great deal of time getting to the core of my emotional and mental issues. Instead we had to muck through a bunch of other baggage. So, here I am now, a recovering Perfectionist. My last session of therapy my Therapist told me she was proud of me and we needn’t reschedule, just call her when I needed her again. (I think she has a great grasp of how job security works.) I was leaving her office with new eyes. I decided to pick up a book I had read twice before titled, “The Gift of Imperfections” by Brene’ Brown. I thought reading it this time, I might actually get what she was trying to say. Previously, I had gotten done reading it, and been like -”I am good. I don’t have any of these problems.” I have all these problems. Brene’ Brown is a social scientist, who dedicated her work to studying Shame and Vulnerability. She talks about the armor we build to deal with not wanting to feels the...