How not to get caught in the cycle of
striving.
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When I think back to all the things, I deprived myself of -
people that I didn’t meet, jobs that I didn’t apply for,
experiences that I denied myself, partners that I wouldn’t let
myself love, life that I didn’t live. All because I didn’t
believe I was good enough or deserving of it. I was starving for
connection and validation and was looking for it in all the wrong
places. But despite my relentless driving, I would soon learn
worthiness was not something to be earned, it was something to be
believed.
Inevitably, perfectionism would betray me. Perfectionism is just
shame masquerading as discipline. Inside the delusion of shame
and not-enoughness was a world of hurt - chronic burnout,
perpetual injuries, broken trust, failed relationships.
Perfectionism wasn’t making me better; it was making me
miserable. When I think back to all the time and energy that I
invested in proving and performing, when I could have been
loving, connecting and creating. The cost of my addiction was
irreparable, but the choice to do something different, to own my
imperfections and appreciate my worth without conditions, was
profoundly shifting.
Healing invites us to declare our enough-ness and reclaim the
worthiness and dignity that is inherent to who we are. It means
confronting the lies that we tell ourselves about who we are
supposed to be and liberating ourselves from society’s
unrealistic standard of perfection. It challenges us to question
where we are operating from scarcity both within ourselves and
the systems we are a part of. When we remember that we are
already whole, enough, significant and worthy, we can imagine a
world beyond proving and performing - a world where we are seen
and valued simply because we are.
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Starting next week, were going on a 5-day journey of
embodied inquiry and shared practice. Together we'll 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
Perfectionists Anonymous ( [link removed] ) 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. Join us September 25th - 29th for a powerful (and
imperfect) bootcamp to confront this addiction and unleash our
true power and potential.
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Look forward to practicing with you.
-Kerri
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