While working from home may have made it cute to have a toddler playing in the background during a work meeting, I don’t think it has made the lives of perfectionists any easier. I know that the expectations we place on ourselves come from an inner self that’s impossible to appease or challenge.
I see clients burning themselves out to maintain their previous levels of productivity despite children, housework, arguments and fear in the midst. “” they complain—as though something is wrong with them. Others are trying to be supermoms in the role of teacher, cook, playdate and nurturer, despite their own anxieties and struggles.
Soon enough, I realized that my comments were falling on deaf ears. I was inconsequential to their conversation. I’d noticed it multiple times before as well. I’d also noticed that my “advice” was generally met with silence and raised eyebrows, or arguments and rolling eyes. Alone in the kitchen, I suddenly felt my insides shrink.
The truth is, we create ideal visions of how we should be in the roles we depend on to feel good about ourselves. For most of us, our work and relationships are two of them, but there are often more—appearance, spirituality, morality. And we spend a lifetime running so urgently after this ideal self.
The current crisis has forced many of us to accept children roaming in their pjs during work calls, or live with the mini horror of seeing our grey hairs and un-botoxed faces reflected back to us in the mirror and on Zoom calls. We may have begun to widen our perspective and see our challenges as inconsequential, given thousands are grieving and millions struggling around the world.
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