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The Everything Guide to Coping with Perfectionism: Overcome Toxic Perfectionism, Learn to Embrace Your Mistakes, and Discover the Potential for Positive Change
Find your perfect balance!
Perfectionism is an admirable quality, right? After all, what's wrong with working hard to reach lofty goals? But sometimes perfectionism can go too far--well beyond pulling extra hours at work to beat a deadline or cleaning the house until it shines. Toxic perfectionism can result in obsessive behavior, damaged self-esteem, depression, and even physical ailments.
In The Everything Guide to Coping with Perfectionism , you'll find tips and techniques to help you recognize symptoms of toxic perfectionism and learn how to introduce flexibility and balance into your life.
This easy-to-use guide includes information
In addition, you'll learn that you don't necessarily need to "fix" perfectionism--you can mold perfectionist behavior into healthy habits and harness your high ambitions to create achievable and positive goals.
Perfectionism is an admirable quality, right? After all, what's wrong with working hard to reach lofty goals? But sometimes perfectionism can go too far--well beyond pulling extra hours at work to beat a deadline or cleaning the house until it shines. Toxic perfectionism can result in obsessive behavior, damaged self-esteem, depression, and even physical ailments.
In The Everything Guide to Coping with Perfectionism , you'll find tips and techniques to help you recognize symptoms of toxic perfectionism and learn how to introduce flexibility and balance into your life.
This easy-to-use guide includes information
In addition, you'll learn that you don't necessarily need to "fix" perfectionism--you can mold perfectionist behavior into healthy habits and harness your high ambitions to create achievable and positive goals.
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304 pages, Paperback
First published November 18, 2012
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August 2, 2018
Although the early chapters made this book seem promising and helped me get insight into a lot of hidden perfectionism in my life, I decided to stop reading about half way through. In a chapter on perfectionism and mental illness, the author veers off onto an unrelated tangent about relationships. The tangent continues with sidebars about how people should not expect to stay married to the same person, and people should keep looking for that perfect mate (in a book about perfectionism). I thought maybe it was just one bad chapter, but the next chapter on perfectionism and illness doubled down. The entire chapter is devoted to questioning germ theory and evidence-based medicine. The author refers to it as allopathic (a pejorative word that reveals she must buy in to homeopathy), and tries to claim that most diseases, including colds, flu, HIV, and cancer, are caused by stress. I can't really keep reading this book because I don't know if I can put in trust in the other advice.
November 24, 2020
It was more of a skim-read for me. But I appreciated the issues addressed in the book and gave me some things to think about.
November 15, 2014
This is an incredible book towards transformation
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