At just 8 years old, Vanessa said to her parents, "If it were a perfect world, pencils wouldn't need erasers because we wouldn't make mistakes."
At such a young age, why did she feel that mistakes were always bad? How can the narrative be changed so that future generations don't feel shame, guilt, and the need to be perfect but supported, loved, and celebrated?
Rather than overcoming or eliminating it completely, this condition can be better understood and harnessed in more productive ways. Written by a perfectionist for perfectionists, Vanessa Bush's Embracing Your Perfectionist Self is meant to give others inspiration and useful techniques for their daily lives.
Using each letter of the alphabet as her chapter guide, Vanessa explores different themes: A is for Ambition, C is for Control, F is for Failure, and more. Through a mixture of personal stories, research and interviews, Vanessa shares the wisdom from those that came before us, assuaging her readers that good can be good enough.
This refreshing, vulnerable and playful piece speaks to anyone struggling to find a healthy balance between expectations and reality. Offering a fresh perspective, Vanessa lends expertise and guidance on how to stop resisting and start embracing your perfectionist self.
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Vanessa Bush is a customer success and higher education professional with over 15 years of experience. As a young girl, Vanessa gravitated toward books and, much to her parents' surprise, read her first one at age two. Since then, she has created short stories and poems, the latter of which have been published in various magazines. A graduate of both the University of New Hampshire and Northeastern University, she considers herself a true supporter of lifelong learning.Vanessa serves as a Customer Success Manager at PeopleGrove, higher education's first Career Access platform. Outside of work and writing, she enjoys dancing, traveling, crime podcasts, some reality TV, and Law & Order: SVU. Vanessa lives just south of Boston, MA with her husband Kyle and two sons Brayden and Benson.
