Perfection
What was your relationship to perfection when you were a child?
2 min readMay 26, 2021
Perfectionism is a trauma response. Trying to be perfect is a way to stay out of trouble, to be validated as good, and to feel included and safer. The elusive goal of perfection forever stays out of reach.
Our experience in life is far from perfect. We don’t have perfect health. We rarely get a perfect night’s…