The Day I Kicked Perfectionism to the Curb and Got Real
It was a day like any other day, the sun was shining on my perfectly manicured lawn and I was heading towards my recently detailed car with my to do list in hand. I had decided the night before just how my day would go…I had lived this day a thousand times before; each time striving to get everything done and appear to be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect employee and the perfect friend. After all, as long as people believed I had it all together that’s all that mattered. Of course, I knew the truth but I kept my flaws deeply hidden, I distracted myself and others by doing and going. I was living the life, or so I thought. I showed people only what I thought they wanted to see and on some level I began to believe my own façade. I had carved out a niche for myself – I was the one who had it together. But somehow this day became like no other. In the midst of my hustle and bustle, I paused lon...