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Sonia Voldseth is a former lawyer turned mental health counsellor in Aotearoa/New Zealand. She seeks to normalise being human. Sign up for her 10 Page Mini Guide: How To Manage Your Anxiety Like A Boss. You can find her on Instagram @sonia.voldseth

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How Perfectionism and Anxiety Made Me Sick and What I Wish I Knew Sooner

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ā€œPerfectionism is the exhausting state of pretending to know it all and have it all together, all the time. Iā€™d rather be a happy mess than an anxious stress case whoā€™s always trying to hide my flaws and mistakes.ā€ ~Lori DescheneĀ 

ā€œThatā€™s not how you do it!ā€ I slammed the door as I headed outside, making sure my husband understood what an idiot he was. Heā€™d made the appalling mistake of roasting potatoes for Thanksgiving instead of making stuffing.

He was cooking while I studied, trying to make sure I got a semblance of a holiday. We lived away from …

Is Your Life Really as Perfect as It Looks on Facebook?

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ā€œMost men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.ā€ ~George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

So would most women.

This is the way we have encountered life so far. Better to show the world just the socially acceptable and shove the rest under the rug. That’s where the hard truths go.

But we all know the trouble with the rug. Stuff builds up under the rug and eventually you land on your face. Hard truths don’t go away.

Social media is exacerbating the historical tendency to present only the pretty, so we’re justifiably, and understandably, really scared …