Perfectionism often feels like a badge of honor, but it can secretly drain your energy and self-worth. While striving for excellence can lead to achievements, the pursuit of flawlessness can also create constant stress, fear of rejection, and deep dissatisfaction. In this blog post, we explore how perfectionism manifests in different areas of life, and the painful emotional and cognitive processes that one experiences while caught in perfectionism. Learn how therapy can help you break the perfectionism cycle, tolerate discomfort, and embrace imperfection for greater self-compassion and fulfillment.

Framing drives feelings.

What we repeat to ourselves and the perspective we choose largely shape how we feel about it. In particular, how we perceive failure will define our relationship with it.

Failure isn't something to avoid—it's a necessary part of growth. When you shift your perspective on mistakes, they become powerful learning tools. In therapy, we can explore how reframing failure can help you move past shame and embrace personal and professional growth.

Learn to view mistakes as stepping stones to success. Book a session with Dr Natasha Tung at Kaki Psychology, a trauma-informed clinical psychologist and couples counsellor in Prahran, Melbourne, today.

To all of you who are hard on yourselves.

You are constantly chiding yourself for decisions you've made, time you've wasted, and for not being good enough. You see all the ways you should have, could have, done better.

This constant questioning of yourself is exhausting

If we constantly depend on outcomes or people's responses to feel good about ourselves, this feeling will likely be unstable and fleeting; hard-earned yet quickly lost.