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When parent and teen perfectionism create toxic cycles

My teenage daughter and I are both perfectionists and we're stuck in this cycle where her anxiety about school triggers my own control issues from when I was her age and I end up making everything worse by trying to fix it. We can both see what's happening but we don't know how to break out of it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people with similar wounds are unconsciously recreating the very patterns they're trying to heal from.

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