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...
We Rise By Lifting Others.