Don’t Say the P-word Around Me Anymore: A Recovering Perfectionist’s Outlook

Trish Di Stefano
Be Yourself
Published in
6 min readJun 29, 2021

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My earliest memories live in a world that rewarded perfection. And from my childhood perspective, perfection was achievable pretty much everywhere. I have loving, doting parents. They are spectacular people. And like many parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers and even strangers on the street, they knew how to make a little girl feel special. A lot…

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Trish Di Stefano is an idealist, recovering perfectionist and weekend glutton.