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#11. Perfectionism Keeps Women with Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease Flaring — You Need to Hear Why
For women with chronic illness and autoimmune illness, perfectionism is rarely just a personality trait.
It is an emotional pattern with a direct physiological cost and one of the most common drivers of flare-ups, chronic fatigue, and persistent symptoms that medicine struggles to explain.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Why perfectionism is a control mechanism built on top of an inability to sit with uncertainty
How that pattern keeps the most primal part of your brain activated — and what that costs the body
One question that begins to slow the loop down starting tomorrow morning
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