If you've ever crossed a finish line—literal or metaphorical—and felt nothing, you might be a perfectionist. Not the kind who color-codes their closet (though maybe that too), but the kind whose sense of self is only as stable as their last success.
You have the stunning summit photo. You're killing it at work. You feel like trash inside. There's a name for that gap, and you don't have to keep muscling through it.
April Fool’s Day is all about disguise and misdirection, but the masks we wear in day-to-day life aren’t a joke. Sometimes they help us survive—and sometimes they get in the way.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers a different way to relate to anxious and “not enough” thoughts—by focusing less on fighting them and more on cultivating what matters.