Be Happy Without Being Perfect: How to Break Free from the Perfection Deception
Dr. Alice D. Domar wants you to feel better. In Self-Nurture, she instructed readers to care for themselves as effectively as they care for others. In Healing Mind, Healthy Woman, she wrote about how the mind-body connection can improve every important facet of our lives. In Be Happy Without...
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Dr. Alice D. Domar wants you to feel better. In Self-Nurture, she instructed readers to care for themselves as effectively as they care for others. In Healing Mind, Healthy Woman, she wrote about how the mind-body connection can improve every important facet of our lives. In Be Happy Without Being Perfect, she explains how freeing ourselves from unrealistic standards can actually enhance our self-respect and happiness.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307354310 (0307354318)
Publish date: March 4th 2008
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Easier said then done. As usual. But actually, for a self-help book, this was pretty interesting. The research on perfectionism, and how it usually backfires was eye-opening, for sure. Of course, that doesn't mean I've been able to stop being a perfectionist, but there were some strategies in her...
This book was an interesting read. I primarily read it because I'm interested in various approaches to women's health issues (took quite a few classes in the subject in my undergrad institution), and was curious to see how this author tackled the issue of the Perfectionist Trap in her book. Suffic...