I look at you and see excellence, confidence, accomplishment, polish, perfection. I look at me and see cowardice, timidity, uncertainty, irresolution, weakness, a perfectionist who settles for being perfectly awful. But then I find someone who has what I want…not […]
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It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives. These things were true to […]
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Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. ~ Steve Chandler A friend of mine identifies as a defiant perfectionist. I’m not that. Sometimes it feels like I’m trying not […]
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Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. ~ Steve Chandler A friend of mine identifies as a defiant perfectionist. I’m not that. Sometimes it feels like I’m trying not for […]
Continue reading »As We Ought to Pray
Some of us have been taught that there are things we shouldn’t say to God or feelings we shouldn’t express. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Locations 1040-1041). Good little girls don’t say that. You […]
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