Perfect Just As You Are

What else is in the toolbox? There's the concept of perfection, as in you are perfect, just as you are, complete with all the things that make you human.

Boy, this illustrates how hard some of this stuff is. I have a patient with what most folks would call a diminished lifestyle; he's in a coma of a sort, on a breathing/feeding tube, completely dependent on those around him, and yet, he is most perfect, just as he is. He doesn't need fixing in any way.

Can you at least think about someone being perfect, just as they are. This is how we are exhorted to think of our patients, that they are perfect as they come to us, not that we should perceive them as too much or too little of anything (too fat, too old, too flighty, too negative, etc.). When someone arrives to you as perfect, there's very little that needs doing.

(And that's Hudson, a 5 year old French Bulldog.)
2,000 steps/159 lbs

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectonism. Confronting your fears and allowinng yourself to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. - Dr. David M. Burns