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By (author) Hendriksen, Ellen
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Your high standards and hard work pay off. In How to be Enough, Dr Hendriksen charts a flexible, forgiving, and freeing path, all without giving up the excellence your high standards and hard work have got you.
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Are you your own toughest critic? Learn to be good to yourself with this clear and compassionate guide.
Do you set demanding standards for yourself? If so, a lot likely goes well in your life. You might earn compliments, admiration, or accomplishments. Your high standards and hard work pay off. But privately, you may feel like you”re falling behind, faking it, or different from everybody else. Your eagle-eyed inner quality control inspector highlights every mistake. You try hard to avoid criticism, but criticise yourself.
This is perfectionism. And for everyone who struggles with it, it”s a misnomer: perfectionism isn”t about striving to be perfect. It”s about never feeling good enough.
Dr Ellen Hendriksen – clinical psychologist and anxiety specialist – is on the same journey as you. In How to be Enough, Dr Hendriksen charts a flexible, forgiving, and freeing path, all without giving up the excellence your high standards and hard work have got you. She delivers seven shifts to move you from self-criticism to kindness, control to authenticity, procrastination to productivity, comparison to contentment. Each will help you find self-acceptance, rewrite the Inner Rulebook, and most of all, cultivate the authentic human connections we”re all craving.
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”A fascinating exploration of the costs of perfection. How to be Enough provides a guide to breaking free from self-criticism so you can live a life of joy and fulfillment.”
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Dr. Ellen Hendriksen writes with a clinician”s authority and expertise, and with compassion, humour, and deep understanding, she shares a practical, empowering vision of how to heal the perfectionist within, a problem that can too easily hamper many of us. How to be Enough is highly engaging and essential.
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Anxiety and depression are increasing rapidly, and one of the causes is the increasingly high standards that we are imposing on ourselves for productivity and success. In this brilliant and entertaining book, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen outlines proven steps that will lead to greater satisfaction and happiness in life.
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I helped craft speeches for a president, but often struggled with public speaking myself. Dr. Ellen Hendriksen helped me see the sources of my anxieties. With grace and compassion, she helped me find my path to self-acceptance and this remarkable book will help you find yours.
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Accessible… [and] a great addition to the self-help bookshelf.
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Ellen Hendriksen”s compassion and clinical expertise provide the key to tackling our most punishing self-expectations
Biographical note:
ELLEN HENDRIKSEN is a clinical psychologist at Boston University”s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. She is the author of How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC News, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, and Psychology Today, among others. She lives in the US with her family.
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A supportive, practical and science-based guide to overcoming perfectionism and restoring balance to your life.
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All aspects of mental health are hot topics at the moment – hence the huge success of authors such as Dr Julie Smith and Philippa Perry.
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