Emotions Perfectionists FEEL (Or Do Not Allow)

Well, first of all, there's a world of pressure that they live under.

Now, let's look at this pressure because it creates a sense of disturbance.

They're not at rest.

They're not at peace.

And so it creates a stress response within them that they actually are used to living with all the time.

And many times they don't realize it until they're really burnt out or they're manifesting certain maybe addictions or intrusive thoughts are getting more and more intense or the anxiety is debilitating or the depression is now something that feels out of control.

But within this stress world, let's talk about that for a moment.

Because in that stress is a sense of anxiety, a low-grade anxiousness, or intense.

It could move into panic attacks.

But within that stress, remember, there's this sense of fight and flight going on.

And they often toggle between the two.

And this is their internal emotional world.

A lot of it goes into the fight.

Why? Because perfectionists are always on the defensive.

They're always on the hypervigilant.

And they never allow themselves to actually feel what they're feeling.

For the longest time, I spent most of my journey trying to fix emotions.

without actually letting myself feel through those emotions.

So you feel a disturbance.

The sense is, I got to fix this.

And so that's the fight of the fight or flight.

And that fight splits off into a bunch of things.

There's like this hyper-drivenness performance thing that comes in where got to do, got to do, got to do, got to do, got to do.

It creates a drive.

And many perfections, whether you're type A or not, This doesn't matter if you're type A or not.