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The five kinds of perfectionists

Life Kit

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What's Wrong With the Messaging Around Perfectionism?

Catherine, in the book, you say a lot of messaging around perfectionism is gendered. Well, balance in its original definition of energetic equilibrium is healthy. But balance as it has come to mean now is just being good at being busy. And what kind of balance we're offering to women is elusive. It never comes. We don't notice that it's not here because we're too busy blaming ourselves," she says.

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