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Can Hypnotherapy Help With Perfectionism?

Breaking the pressure to get everything exactly right

sign saying nobody is perfect

Perfectionism often involves setting extremely high standards and feeling that anything less than perfect represents failure.
Although perfectionism can sometimes produce achievement, it can also create anxiety, procrastination, self-criticism and exhaustion.
Hypnotherapy may help identify the beliefs underneath perfectionistic behaviour, such as needing approval, fearing criticism or believing that mistakes make you less worthy.
Therapeutic work can support a healthier relationship with achievement in which you can pursue high standards without making your self-worth dependent upon the outcome.
The aim is not to remove ambition. It is to reduce the emotional pressure associated with needing everything to be perfect.

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