Perfectionism can break your heart and all the hearts around you.

Listening is perhaps the oldest tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening we can help others with their healing and motivate them not to give up.

..He was a very heavy bariatric patient, a psychiatric nurse who worked very hard all his life. However, perfection was his life purpose, so he had never paid attention to his own health, to his life, to anything apart from work until he had developed a deep vein thrombosis and medicine had failed him in some ways. As a result, he struggled to walk and experienced a severe pain when stepping on his right foot.

The journey to his fourth-floor flat was very complicated. He leaned on the wall and held stairs handrail, and walked very slowly one step at a time to the fourth floor. The block of flats where he lived didn’t have a lift.

…He told me that he loves the flat that he owns and that his leg is about to be amputated…

Perfectionism can break your heart and all the hearts around you ~ Rachel Naomi Remen.

• The artwork — “ Hope” , 2021 by Margarita Sayed
• Acrylic on cardboard, mixed media
• Size: 17 x 17 cm