Signs I'm a Recovered Perfectionist - The Artist's Way Week 1

My biggest takeaway wasn't in the pages of the book at all

I started the Artist’s Way last week. In some ways it feels like a cliche to be doing it because I see posts about it often on social media, but I didn’t want to let that stop me!

The one thing that was my ‘non-negotiable’ was to be flexible with the process. I have seen SO MANY people post about how they’d restarted the Artist’s Way 3-4 times and never made it all the way through and I’m really trying to be better at sticking to things.

To that end, I knew I had to tackle this differently to how I’ve tackled things in the past.

Week one is about recovering a sense of safety and to be honest… I struggled to connect with that as a topic, so let’s talk about perfectionism first instead.

(Below we’re getting really personal - including reflections on EMDR and even a photo or two from when I was 11/12, so I’m putting it behind a paywall. Thank you so much to those who subscribe, you’re helping me afford therapy and physical rehab stuff 🥰)