Hello, dear listeners and welcome to Inner Work of Spiritual Growth Podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine, a second-generation intuitive healer and English PhD,

who taught college for nine years before transitioning to spiritual work full-time.

I now specialize in helping type A and highly sensitive women, including empaths,

let go of perfectionism, release shame, and transform their inner critics into inner allies.

To find out more or join the tribe, visit www.purefieldhealing.com or contact me directly at purefield healing at gmail.com. As always, those links will be

in the show notes. And now, on to the show. Hello, dearest listeners and fellow spiritual

seekers.

Welcome to episode 43 of Inner Work.

Let's take a second to cultivate some stillness and some peace here.

So please, if you can, stop whatever it is you're doing just for one minute, and let's take a deep breath together.

So breathe in and let it all out.

It's so important as you know in our busy, frantic, go-go-go-go lives and over-packed schedules

to take just a few minutes out of the day, to stop, to breathe, to reflect on what's going

on internally with our feelings and thoughts and desires, and to reconnect with that powerful source of energy and abundance that has

animated us and that sustains us throughout our experiences here on this planet.

So I'm going to give you another minute to just take two or three very deep breaths and let everything else go and nurture yourself in this moment

that we have together, that we was going to be. Okay, so with greater awareness, with a greater sense of groundedness than before, we embark on a new topic today.

And this one is going out to all of my fellow perfectionists and recovering perfectionists out there.

All of you who set extremely high standards for yourselves and who are typically not satisfied with things until they are,

quote, unquote, perfect. We'll be talking today about the elusive search for perfection,

about why precisely we embark on this futile endeavor,

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