THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION – WHAT’S IT COSTING YOU?

For some, it seems that no matter how much they have, they’re always striving for more. There’s nothing wrong with having goals—it can be wonderfully motivating to have something to work towards—but when what you’re striving for is perfection, you’re always going to find yourself lacking. Between perceiving the need to project the perfect life on social media, maintain the perfect body, be the perfect parent, partner, friend, employee—this drive for a perfection that’s permeating modern culture is simply not attainable. And it’s exhausting us.

Whether you pursue perfection yourself or you know someone who does, let’s leave judgement at the door and peel back the layers to uncover what it might really be about, for it is often a mask that fear wears.

During childhood, most of us are raised to be ‘’. To do as we are told, to put the needs of others ahead of our own. We’re praised for good behaviour and reprimanded when we step across the line. So, we tend to develop in a way