Hey y'all,

Perfectionism isn’t something we’re born with; it’s learned.

Here’s how it works: without knowing it, you practice, hone, and justify the skill until society pats you on the back for it. Before long, it isn’t something you are doing but a way of being in the world—a chronic fear of failure that drives you to do more, better.

So... you micromanage.

You fix.

You prove and people-­please.

You are always performing and assuming judgment.

You set impossible goals for yourself and others.

You criticize.

You self-­beat.

You don’t trust yourself, so you don’t trust anyone.

You live in fear of failure. You reject feedback.

You can’t tolerate mistakes.

You refuse to ask for help from anyone.

You worry.

You get anxious.

You beat yourself up.

You get sick.

You burn out.

You lose friends.

You lose jobs.

You lose yourself. 

But the perfectionist is, ultimately, doomed. Author Anne Lamott notes that “perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” It is an unreachable destination that keeps us stuck in the struggle with no hope of arriving.

Perfectionism is a lie. We know this. AND YET, so many of us (myself included) fall into the trap and don’t even know it.  

There is no being perfect, there is only being human. And when we reject the lie - when we trust in our inherent worthiness and share ourselves out of generosity not scarcity - then we can break free from capitalism’s grip and live into our generative potential. 

Join me for a 5-day Perfectionists Anonymous Bootcamp where we will explore: 

• Navigating our addiction to perfectionism and dismantling the self destructive tendencies that sabotage the self and our relationships. 
• Unpacking the patterns of thoughts/behaviors that perpetuate the illusion of control and anesthetizes emotion through doing. 
• Reconciling the cost of our compliance to our personal health, our relationships and our work in the world and exploring what is possible when we fail forward and embrace our humanness.  
• Recovering our dignity and creating new and different ways of being and doing in the world that honor our inherent self worth and belonging.
• Building healing practices of mutuality and relational support in the context and container of collective recovery 

Unhooking ourselves from perfectionism is not so much about giving something up but unleashing our true power and potential to move towards wholeness and healing. Join me for a powerful five day intensive to confront what’s in the way of our growth and build pathways towards possibility. 

Grateful to be in this exploration with you,

-Kerri