Status Updates From The Perfectionist's Guide t...

“Connection will hold you over when nothing else can.”

“Perfectionist intellectually understand that they cannot change the past, but that doesn’t stop them from trying to change the fact that the past had an impact on them. …You accept the event and reject the impact. You say some version of “Yes, that happened but I’m fine.””
If yall had a penny for every time I’ve said that, you would be eligible for retirement at 25.

“Power lies in understanding that whatever you feel, you have agency over every moment in your life. The exception to the rule is trauma.”
🚬Oh no, here we go.

“We love to think in binary ways. Were depressed (damn it!), or we’re not depressed (phew!). Mental health doesn’t work like that.”
Plot twist: we all are a little sick in the head (knew it)

“You don’t earn your way to joy.”
Right right right

“There’s nothing fixed in the matters of the mind and heart.”
-Dr. Harriet Lerner