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August 26, 2025 2 mins

Ever have one of those days?

You drop the ball at work.

You’re late picking up the kids.

The bank account is overdrawn.

Something you posted got no likes - just ridicule.

And then, just to top it all off, a valued friend won’t return your texts because something you did offended them.

You sit at home alone.

Dreading going back to work.

Dreading going to bed.

Dreading life.

It feels like everything is collapsing into an inescapable darkness.

And you, too, are spiraling downward.

I’ve been there.

Maybe you have too.

Maybe you are also a recovering perfectionist.

Here’s the truth: Perfectionism is a cage.

It whispers that if you just did everything right, life would finally give you peace.

But peace doesn’t come from being flawless; it comes from being free.

Free from Judgment

Free from Analyzing

Free from Comparing

Free from Describing and Labeling

Free from JAC'D Thinking

Free from the Ogres that run your mind and your moods.

True Freedom is the Freedom to Be your True Self

Your True Self, by definition, is your personality and mind connected to Source/God/Light.

Expanding Awareness (Consciousness) is the bridge.

And here's your permission slip:

🔥 Free yourself from perfectionism.

🔥 Free yourself from the illusion that you have to hold it all together.

🔥 Free yourself from the lie that mistakes diminish your worth.

My recent Phoenix transmission reminded me to remind us:

"Perfectionism is not your truth; it is the mask of fear.

It is the false security that comes from needing to control.

The Phoenix burns away the lie that you must never falter, never err, never fall. In the ashes of your striving, the wings of your true essence unfold.

Freedom comes not in flawless doing, but in radiant being.

Release the prison of impossible standards.

Rise as the one who is already whole, already holy.

Your imperfection is the fire that makes you real, and your realness is the light that makes you free."

What burns away was never meant to last.

Perfectionism is ash.

Your True Self is fire.

Your True Self is Free.

Let today be the day you rise.

Note: The Phoenix is my Metaphysical Energy Transmitter.

You may have a different messenger, maybe Jesus, maybe another form of higher guidance.

However you receive your message, I’m pretty sure it’s pointing to the same truth.

✨ Listen… and free yourself from perfection.

You are the Truth that sets you free.

Hi there, I’m Dr Tom, and I’m on a mission to help alleviate unnecessary suffering through expanding consciousness. Because we are spiritually energized beings, expressing and interacting through a physical body and a beautifully malleable mind. We are being called to level up our energetic operating systems so we can make the most of this planetary overflow of consciousness energy.

Join Us:
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 Your consciousness is the most important thing to start with, and as you level that up, it helps everyone around you.

I'm inviting you to join our True Freedom Community, where we're all on a mission to elevate our consciousness together. Love to see you in there.

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(00:00):
Perfectionism is sort of likestress.

(00:02):
I'm so stressed.
I'm so busy, I have so much todo.
My list is so big.
Oh, I'm such a perfectionist.
But secretly we sort of like,like that title because it
somehow makes us think we'recloser to something really good,
a character trait that willsomehow one day serve us That is

(00:23):
a lie.
Perfectionism is nothing morethan fear, and because of that
fear, we try to controleverything.
We try to control how othersperceive us.
We try to control how everythinghappens.
Perfectionism is all bad.
It's fear with a pretty littlebow on it called perfectionism,

(00:46):
pretty name, not such a goodenergy.
No guilt, no shame, no blame,you have a permission slip right
here to release perfectionismand release it as fear it makes
you feel like you have tocontrol other things.
It was never good.
It'll never be good.
And of course, this came fromsome childhood traits where if

(01:08):
you weren't perfect, you gotcriticized and you're so scared
to get criticized again, you'lldo whatever it takes just to not
be looked down upon orcriticized or anything that
feels like rejection.
So we try to control everything.
It is the false fire of control.
Let it burn.
The true fire is transmutation'cause your worth is not in

(01:34):
flawless doing, but in radiantbeing rise like the phoenix from
the ashes of never enough andspread your wings and freedom.
True freedom.
You are already whole.
Already true light source light.
And Phoenix is calling us to letthe striving die.
So your true self may fly.

(01:56):
Let's fly.
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