Big Feelings: A Perfectionist’s Journey Through the Emotions We Hide
Perfect is the enemy of good, they say. Yet for years, I lived as though perfection were the only currency worth holding. Every draft felt incomplete, every accomplishment insufficient, every milestone merely a stepping stone to the next impossible standard. The weight of never being enough had become so familiar that I mistook it for ambition. I mistook exhaustion for dedication. I mistook the constant hum of anxiety for the sound of success. When I picked up Big Feelings, I was in a period of recalibration—neither achieving what I’d hoped for nor feeling fulfilled by what I was doing. The book found me at a moment when my perfectionism had stopped being a useful driver and had become a prison of my own design. I was stuck in a loop of setting impossible standards, falling short, and then berating myself for the gap. What began as a personal search for…
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