'Being a people-pleasing perfectionist was utterly exhausting and ultimately led to me being blisteringly burnt out by the age of 30'
05th Jun 2023
In general, I like to look on the bright side and had long believed in the importance of a positive outlook. My sunny disposition fell apart quicker than my kiddo’s tear-soaked tissues, though, when I realised that it wasn’t always that helpful to act as if everything was going to work out each time, every time.
“Pessimism is a feature of life,” Alain de Botton asserts. “It’s a feature of life we often try to run away from. By running away from it too quickly, we cut ourselves off from the opportunity to embrace this darkness and to embrace the lessons that it often brings.” This got me thinking.I realised that I wasn’t, in fact, unwittingly creating a culture of negativity in my son’s life but instead, trying to walk the ever-so-delicate expectation management high wire.
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