PPP153: What is “perfect” anyway!?
I love getting mail from you guys! Recently, I received an email from a listener asking how to help her young daughter who is starting to show signs of perfectionism. What a great question! I'm not a counselor or trained at all in the underlying issues that can cause perfectionism but I can offer you my observations from students I've worked with. I often say that I learn as much from my students as they learn from me. Today I will share a few examples. What is "perfect" anyway? Merriam-Webster - "being entirely without fault or defect". In my mind, that's an impossible task and no matter how "perfect" I might think a thing is, someone else will have a different view and be able to find a flaw. When my…