Feel Like You're Enough

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. 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 you'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 Enough 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.

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