Are You Addicted to Performing Perfection
From The Flavored Word 🎙️ · 12:30
Show by Shauna Gabriel
Recovery isn't the end of the story. Sometimes it's where the complicated part begins. Especially when we think we still need to perform like we're suddenly OK.This episode is about what survival can quietly do to your personality. The hypervigilance that doesn't turn off when the crisis does. The control that saved you becoming the thing that isolates you. The armor that got you through becoming the thing that keeps everyone out.I talk about the specific ways the eating disorder didn't just affect my relationship with food — it shaped how I moved through the world, how I related to other women, and how I performed a version of myself for so long that I lost track of where the performance ended and the actual person began.This one is raw. It doesn't have a clean resolution. But it's honest. And if you've ever survived something only to find yourself looking at who you became on the other side and thinking — this isn't quite right either — this episode is for you.Disclaimer: I share personal experiences, not professional advice. Nothing here is medical, nutritional, or therapeutic guidance.
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