More Than Our Mistakes

For the People Pleasers and Validation Seekers

Russ W
4 min readOct 1, 2023
Photo by Elisa Ventur on Unsplash

If I’m a master of anything at all, it’s catastrophizing poor performance into evidence of deficiency.

It could be the tiniest morsel of a critique hidden in an otherwise glowing performance review. My mind will seize upon that morsel and manifest a mountain of doom.

You too?

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Russ W

Addiction therapist with an alphabet soup of degrees. Writer. Creative. Human. Hit me up: russ.w.medium@gmail.com