What if the very thing you are doing to protect your relationships is actually keeping you from the connection you deeply desire?
In this episode, Kim Gross explores how perfectionism becomes a prison in relationships. When we are afraid of being judged, criticized, rejected, or misunderstood, we may begin to perform, edit ourselves, suppress our needs, and avoid saying what we truly think or feel. The inner controller convinces us that if we can just be easy enough, agreeable enough, strong enough, or perfect enough, we will be safe and loved.
But the cost is loneliness.
Kim shares personal reflections on motherhood, people-pleasing, empty nesting, and the ache of wanting to be seen as good, loving, and perfect in the eyes of the people we care about most. She explains how people-pleasing and perfectionism can create pseudo-connection while quietly disconnecting us from ourselves.
This episode is an invitation to stop abandoning yourself in order to be chosen by others. Through compassion, loving kindness, and small moments of honesty, we can begin to unmask from perfectionism and experience the true connection we have been longing for.
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