Overcoming Perfectionism: Finding the Key to Balance and Self-Acceptance

By Ann W. Smith

Categories: Self-Help, Sports & Outdoors

In Overcoming Perfectionism, family therapist Ann W. Smith, a pioneer of codependency treatment, examines a compulsion that carries less stigma than smoking, gambling or alcoholism but can harm individuals and families in similar ways. From personal experience and decades of studying compulsive disorders, she describes effects ranging from anxiety, isolation and sleep problems to harsh judgment of others, a need for control and excessive guilt and shame, and offers a path toward balance and self-acceptance.

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