I have never heard these terms described in this way. But it makes a lot of sense.
Doing something that give us meaning and joy and working towards doing it well is a different experience to feeling paralyzed by the idea of making a mistake or never feeling good enough, no matter what because the goal post is always shifting...
Thank you for sharing.
I also wonder, a part from the fact that these understudied and under funded condition mostly affect women, also remain so because there are often multi factorial and can have similar symptoms but entirely different aetiologies for different people, which does not suit the current medical model of linear thinking?
Thank you so much for your comment! And I’m loving your blog! I definitely think the linear, Pasteur-like medical model is too narrow to understand some of the diseases that disproportionately affect women. Plus, women’s bodies have generally been underexplored, we know too little.
FASCINATING 🤩🤩 I love the rabbit holes you go down! I came across the links to perfectionism and migraine disease through taking a holistic approach to my health and healing. Looking into and exploring root cause (something I initially believed the “specialists” were gonna help me with🤣). I read Louise hays “you can heal your life” and came across it there. So I adopted a “perfectly imperfect” approach to my life. As only one of the many hundreds of new changes, practices and rituals I have adopted in the last 5 years. But I can absolutely see myself as someone who worried about making mistakes and definitely came from a place of not enough! So there’s a depth beyond perfectionism here. Though I loved my work and had a very hard time of letting go of my career, income, job, glowing reputation, all because of disability by illness and physically no longer being able to drag myself out of bed to get there. It has been a healing practice for me and I get more done In less time because I am not as held back by it as I used to be if that makes sense? It’s a very interesting topic and it’s way more complex than blaming a serious illness on work/ambition/perfectionism. Isn’t the fear of making mistakes and not feeling good enough rooted in childhood and ancestral trauma? It has been for me.
I have never heard these terms described in this way. But it makes a lot of sense.
Doing something that give us meaning and joy and working towards doing it well is a different experience to feeling paralyzed by the idea of making a mistake or never feeling good enough, no matter what because the goal post is always shifting...
Thank you for sharing.
I also wonder, a part from the fact that these understudied and under funded condition mostly affect women, also remain so because there are often multi factorial and can have similar symptoms but entirely different aetiologies for different people, which does not suit the current medical model of linear thinking?
Thank you so much for your comment! And I’m loving your blog! I definitely think the linear, Pasteur-like medical model is too narrow to understand some of the diseases that disproportionately affect women. Plus, women’s bodies have generally been underexplored, we know too little.
Thank you for your kind comment re my blog! And yes I totally agree.
😵😱 our bodies, wellness (or lack thereof) definitely does not suit the current model of linear thinking! What a realisation🤯💥
FASCINATING 🤩🤩 I love the rabbit holes you go down! I came across the links to perfectionism and migraine disease through taking a holistic approach to my health and healing. Looking into and exploring root cause (something I initially believed the “specialists” were gonna help me with🤣). I read Louise hays “you can heal your life” and came across it there. So I adopted a “perfectly imperfect” approach to my life. As only one of the many hundreds of new changes, practices and rituals I have adopted in the last 5 years. But I can absolutely see myself as someone who worried about making mistakes and definitely came from a place of not enough! So there’s a depth beyond perfectionism here. Though I loved my work and had a very hard time of letting go of my career, income, job, glowing reputation, all because of disability by illness and physically no longer being able to drag myself out of bed to get there. It has been a healing practice for me and I get more done In less time because I am not as held back by it as I used to be if that makes sense? It’s a very interesting topic and it’s way more complex than blaming a serious illness on work/ambition/perfectionism. Isn’t the fear of making mistakes and not feeling good enough rooted in childhood and ancestral trauma? It has been for me.