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S2 Ep 88: Mythbusting Perfectionism with Professor Thomas Curran

Raising Good Humans

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Is Perfectionism the One Thing That's Holding You Up?

Perfectionism has an aggressive vulnerability built into its core. It's that kind of vulnerability combined with this idea that it's holding us up in the world that creates a perfect snorf mental health problem. We feel like we haven't lived up to some ideals, so we cast together ourselves and become very self-critical. Many such daily experiences of this kind of shame really have a profoundly negative impact on our mental health.

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