Perfectionism is a sneaky little thought habit indeed.

It keeps us running in a perpetual hamster wheel of self-doubt, self-loathing, and never enoughness.

So what is perfectionism?

And how do we know if perfectionist thinking is what's driving us? How can we distinguish goal setting, ambition, desire, passion for our work from perfectionism?

This is a vital topic for most of us humans and I'm so excited to dive into it with you today, my darling.

I'll be giving you my favorite top tips so stay tuned you're

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herbalist and life coach, Victoria Albina.

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So, my loves.

We are talking today about perfectionist thought habits

and a perfectionist mindset, which is a topic I see in, let's be real, pretty much everyone in my life, and it was very, very, very much a part of my everyday, though I didn't recognize it.

So perfectionism is a sneaky one, and it can be super challenging to see in ourselves. I saw myself as not being perfect, as if that was a thing, and in my head a perfectionist did everything right ahead of time, kept a perfect A perfect schedule and stuck to it, always looked impeccable and had the latest fashions on.

I'm wearing my mom's sweater from the 90s as I write this and that's cool for me, but I didn't call myself a perfectionist. That wasn't me. Like, no way. I wasn't perfect. And what I've come to see by using the think feel act cycle

tool that I teach you, by doing the thought work protocol with myself on the daily is that it's my constant

striving to be perfect in air quotes obvi because because once again, like, what even is perfection, right?

And at the same time you are inherently perfect.

It's one of those.

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