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My client was telling me about lots of struggles, difficult times, and a few positive moments.  I noted, as I have many times with many clients, "It sounds like your present is perfect." She went silent.  I was silent.  But I could see her processing and struggling with my words.  I sat quietly. She finally erupted: "Perfect?!? How can you say that?  After all the stuff I told you... how can you tell me that things are perfect?" I told her, "I didn't say great.  I didn't say it was how you wanted them to be.  Only that the present is perfect." In that moment, I could see her gears turning... but she still couldn't make sense of what I was saying. How can things feel upside-down and inside-out, and be perfect? "Perfect" does not mean preferred.  It means something is complete.  A perfectly cooked steak is complete. It is cooked to a certain level.  But also consider a "perfect storm," the perfect combination of  circumstances that mean the storm is more powerful than when those circumstances don't combin