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How Perfectionism Lives in the Nervous System

I can challenge my perfectionist thoughts but my body still gets physically sick when I make mistakes and I can't think my way out of that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Somatic perfectionism operates through autonomic responses that resist cognitive intervention and require body-based healing approaches.

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