Raise your hand if you consider yourself a perfectionist. My hand is raised to the ceiling. I recently decided to embrace imperfection, and now I am a recovering perfectionist. But I am not far enough along in recovery to put my hand down. Perfectionism runs deep. It is not something I can toss out the ...

If you are that partner in crime… please leave now and get your innocent, helpless children out of that toxic environment. Stop waiting. Things are not going to get better. Your partner is not going to change. The fact that they’re sweet one moment isn’t going to stop them from becoming that monster a few ...

Perfection isn’t real. We’ve searched for years to find it, and it was never there. Nothing in this world is or ever will be perfect. We can use the word to describe something physical or a feeling, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the true definition.  What is perfection, though? It’s a word. Like everything ...

This is my 6-month check-in for an article I wrote back in January, about the problem with perfection and why to take chances. You can read that article here.   The premise of the article was the fear of failure, and how I decided that I was going to push myself to take chances and ...