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The new year is a great time to take a look at what's not serving you.
And if I had to pick one trait that's definitely not been serving me, it's my perfectionism.
I tend to beat myself up a lot.
I'm terrified to try things that I might not be good at, and even small mess ups make me feel like I'm sort of a bad person.
So in this next episode of our how to season, I'm bringing you a timely guide for fighting that kind of self criticism, or what I like to call how to Feel like youe're Enough.
And picking an expert for this episode was easy.
Dr.
Ellen Hendrickson is a clinical psychologist at Boston University's center for Anxiety and Related Disorders.
Like me, Ellen is a recovering perfectionist.
She's also the author of a fabulous book that I strongly recommend.
It's called how to Be Self Acceptance for Self Critics and Perfectionists.
I mean, there's a saying for self help book authors, and that is write the book you need.
So I partially wrote the book for me.
But, you know, certainly there's also an external reason I wrote the book, which is because I think there is sort of a silent epidemic of perfectionism happening.
And I've noticed that perfectionism is a bit of a misnomer.
It's not about striving to be perfect.
No one ever comes into the Anxiety specialty clinic where I work and says, ellen, I strive for perfection.
I need help.
I'm a perfectionist.