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One podcast at a time with your host, Alicia McCormack.

Welcome, welcome, my lovely Bride Chiller and Grim Chiller friends.

Alicia here, this is the Bride Chiller podcast.

It's all about wedding planning, but all the stuff that surrounds a wedding planning that isn't tables and chairs and invitations.

I am really happy this week to be sharing the show with an expert, a doctor, a proper doctor to, a psychologist who is going to help us work through this whole idea of perfectionism and the idea

that we are striving for something that doesn't necessarily exist. David Purvis, welcome to the

show. Thank you so much for being on Bride Chiller. Oh, thank you, Alicia. It's a real pleasure to be here.

Well, I'm delighted to have you on the program, David, and I just called

it the program like it was some sort of BBC radio show. How funny. The program, you've up my game

because I'm talking to a proper person. Well, I'm pleased to be able to help. Not that any of my other

guests aren't proper people, all my other guests listening. I love you all.

But I wanted today to talk to you, David, about perfectionism and this idea that it can really stress people out.

And I go on and on about, I have this saying that it's fuck perfect, basically.

And I say this idea that we are so worked up and so driven by this thing that doesn't

exist.

Tell me a little bit about your idea about perfectionism.

How do you see it from a professional standpoint?

I run a clinical practice.

So these days I'm in private practice.

You know, I used to be a consultant in the

NHS and whatnot. So now it's private practice. And I would say that virtually everybody I see

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