Perfectionism is a lie intended not just to keep us struggling in shame and scarcity, but to keep us complicit in upholding systems of exploitation and extraction. Everything that we allow when we don’t feel that we are enough not only harms us personally, but contributes to the cycle of oppression that is threatening our collective survival.

Shame is political. Not only does it fuel the all-American obsession with being perfect, skinny, productive and well, but it is the driving force behind a system that thrives on controlling bodies to keep people performing their roles in the dynamic systems of oppression.

Healing is taking an honest look at the role we play in our own suffering and the suffering of others. Whether we like it or not, there is no escape from these systems, there is no perfect way of being, no pure lifestyle that allows us to transcend the toxicity of our culture. The world is a fucked-up mess, and no amount of purity and perfectionism is going to fix it.

Healing from perfectionism is not just personal, it’s political. Which means healing from perfectionism isn’t just about reckoning our toxic patterns, it’s about confronting the culture and systems that have shaped us and held us back from ourselves and each other.

Perfectionists Anonymous is a 5-day bootcamp using embodied practice, radical inquiry and mutual support to examine how we’ve been shaped by dominant systems to strive for perfection and what it’s going to take to get free. 

Over the course of our journey we will dig deep to examine how perfectionism intersects with other forces of oppression so that we can build capacity for greater awareness, agency and accountability.  

• Never Enough: Perfectionism and Scarcity 
• Body Wars: Perfectionism and Ableism
• Being Good: Perfectionism and White Supremacy
• The Cult of Me: Perfectionism and Individualism
• Towards Dignity: The Practice of Recovery 

Through shared analysis and practice we will discover that we are MORE than what dominant systems tell us we are and imagine new and different ways of being and becoming together. 

Join us September 25th - 29th for a powerful (and imperfect) bootcamp to confront this addiction and unleash our true power and potential.

So grateful to be in this exploration with you,

-Kerri