NEXT STEPS

Visit thehappinesstrap.com, for free coping tools and an online course designed to help with difficult thoughts and feelings.

Listen to the Best Friend Therapy with Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell podcast. Season 1, Episode 5, focuses on special occasions: How do we feel about them? Who are they for?

Read Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle (Ebury Publishing, £14.99), an uplifting memoir and guide for life from the bestselling author.

Watch Charly Haversat’s TED talk Perfectionism holds us back, for a look at how perfectionism can be challenged.