Healing Your Emotional Self
A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame
Chapter One
Our Parents as Mirrors
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
-Ann Wilson Schaef
I avoid looking in the mirror as much as I possibly can. When I
do look, all I see are my imperfections-my long nose, my
crooked teeth, my small breasts. Other people tell me I'm
attractive, but I just don't see it.
-Kristin, age twenty-six
I'm what you would call a perfectionist, especially when it
comes to my work. It takes me twice as long as it does other
people to get something done, because I have to go over it a
dozen times to make sure I haven't made any mistakes. My boss
complains about my being so slow, but I'd rather have him complain
about that than have him find a mistake. That would devastate
me.
-Elliot, age thirty-one
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