How To Embrace Imperfection

Our surroundings affect our happiness in ways we often don’t notice. The layout of a room, the amount of clutter in our home, and even small changes to lighting can shape our mood, focus, and relationships. As The Happiness Lab continues its spring cleaning series, Dr. Laurie sit ...  Show more

Breaking bad habits often feels like a test of willpower. We tell ourselves we’ll stop scrolling, eat better, or exercise more — and then fall right back into the same routines. So why is lasting change so hard? As part of our spring cleaning series, we’re revisiting a powerful e ...  Show more

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3524: Melissa Camara Wilkins explores the hidden burdens of perfectionism and how the relentless pursuit of flawlessness ca ...  Show more

In job interviews and in life, perfectionism is often seen as a selling point – an asset disguised as a flaw. But as psychologists have found rising rates of perfectionism in the United States and around the world in recent decades, they’ve begun to recognize the toll that the dr ...  Show more

in today’s episode, we’re diving into something I know we all struggle with from time to time… PERFECTIONISM! 💭✨ While holding yourself to a high standard can be motivating, there’s a fine line where it can lead to insecurity, never feeling fulfilled, and an inability to embrace ...  Show more

Are you tired of never feeling good enough? In this insightful conversation, psychologist Ellen Hendriksen, author of How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists, ...