A Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

Why are so many workers—blue-collar, white-collar, contract, freelance, and college-educated alike—feeling like the old bargain has broken down? Today, Paul Osterman, author of Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment, explains how companies increasingly rely on worke ...  عرض المزيد

What does it mean to find your way—through a city, a life, or a world that refuses to make perfect sense? In ⁠The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise⁠, Pico Iyer travels from Iran to North Korea to Japan in search of peace in the middle of uncertainty. In Dark and Magical Plac ...  عرض المزيد

Welcome back to Therapy Chat! We have talked a lot on Therapy Chat about perfectionism, and this week’s guest brings a slightly different perspective. Our guest today is a former onsite therapist at Google who proposes that it’s not always necessary to let go of being a perfectio ...  عرض المزيد

Forrest explores how we can harness perfectionism’s strengths without getting captured by its vulnerabilities with therapist and author Katherine Morgan Schafler. They talk about perfectionism’s bad branding, and how our relationship with perfectionism can lead to it being either ...  عرض المزيد

Katherine Morgan Schafler is a therapist and an author who studies perfectionism. She talks about healthy vs maladaptive perfectionism and the ways we can harness this tendency for good. Follow her @KatherineMorganSchafler. Check out her book, The Perfectionists Guide to Losing C ...  عرض المزيد

In today's episode, Abby reveals the past experiences in her life that shaped her into the perfectionist-natured human that she is today. She talks about how to recognize perfectionist behaviors, how to overcome perfectionism and change your mindset to eliminate the stress of ...