Freedom from the Burden of “Just Right But Never Enough”: The Christian Perfectionist Healing Journey

I began to uncover this distortion in my book, The OCD Healing Journey.

But I realized in writing that book that there's so much more to bring out in this mindset because it infects us in so many sneaky ways.

yet subtle ways.

Yes, because it hijacks your desire to do right, to be right, and instead gets you under this striving lifestyle.

So instead of living from God's grace, you strive to try to perform your way into God's grace, into his good graces.

Instead of living from the Father's love, You're constantly living to perform, to try to find a place to then feel loved, to then earn his love.

Meanwhile, you're constantly under this pressure to get things just right.

And it will drive a daily thinking and living pattern.

And it's a mindset of just right now.

but never enough.

And you can always detect the work of perfectionism in a Christian's life by looking at their pressure points, those areas that create a daily burden of pressure on their thinking, on how they approach God, and how they approach their life.

That pressure increases anxiety, increases anger.

It even fuels burnout and depression, a weariness that weighs on us, not to mention the constant spinning and cycles and ruminating in our thoughts and in our lives and in relationships that just keeps going and going.