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Part of the issue, as high-functioning perfectionists, is that we are so hard on ourselves.
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Heaven-forbid we make mistakes.
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We know logically that we make mistakes all the time, and we need to in order to grow, yet emotionally we don't have the tolerance and the skills to withstand the vu...
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