Workbook
The Perfectionism Workbook
When Good Enough Was Never Your Option
You did not choose perfectionism. It chose you, early, when it was the safest option available.
For the person whose perfectionism is not a trait they are proud of but a pattern they recognize is costing them in relationships, creative work, and their ability to finish things.
The Name It First Experience
Perfectionism arrives looking like high standards. It behaves like a sentence. The revision never ends, the thing is never finished or sent or released, and the internal voice evaluating every output is harsher than any external critic would be. This workbook traces perfectionism to its source and builds something different in its place. You will document where good enough became unacceptable. You will name what perfectionism has protected you from. You will write an agreement with yourself about what good enough is. The output is not a permission slip. It is The Perfectionism Agreement.
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Sample questions
- What does perfectionism protect you from — and what does it cost you?
- What is the story perfectionism tells you about what will happen if things aren't done perfectly?
- What would you do differently if you weren't trying to be perfect — and what would that make possible?
Research basis
Grounded in ACEs research (Felitti & Anda) on perfectionism as an adaptive response to conditional approval / Self-Compassion (Neff) on self-compassion as the mechanism through which perfectionism can be released / and Brené Brown's research on perfectionism as shame avoidance.
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