Liz Fosslien

Parce que les émotions au travail, c’est l’avenir. Il n’existe pas de scénario pré-écrit pour nos relations professionnelles les plus problématiques. Quand on parle d’« émotions au travail », on peut songer aux grandes étapes de la vie professionnelle : entretiens d’embauche, négociations de salaire, évaluations annuelles.

Reader Katja’s father mentally and physically abused her as a child. Growing up, Katja did whatever she could to please him, hoping that it would spare her from his cruelty. “I spent snow days cleaning out the fridge or organizing and alphabetizing the spice rack,” she told us.
Katja carried her perfectionist beliefs into adulthood: even when she was happily married, she frequently stayed up late to make sure her kitchen counter didn’t have a speck of dirt on it. Then one day, she came across the quote “Perfectionism is a form of self-abuse.” She was floored. “That quote changed my life,” Katja told us. “I’d worked so hard to rid my life of abusive relationships, and here I was abusing myself.