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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every "recovering perfectionist" to challenge the way they look at perfectionism, and the way they look at themselves. We've been looking at perfectionism all wrong. As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google Katherine Morgan Schafler argues in The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control, you don't have to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy. For women who are sick...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
So many of us feel as though accepting our bodies means abandoning any effort to improve. We look in the mirror and tell ourselves that we are going to love the skin we are in, but most days our inner self-critic is all we can hear. We constantly ask ourselves, "How can I have a healthy lifestyle that will keep me motivated and inspired?" "Why does it even matter how I think about my body?" "Can?t I just lose weight and be happy?" "What is it going...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"AJ is a buttoned-up, responsible student...[and] spends every summer with her father in Florida. A free-spirited wild child, she spends as much time as possible on the beach with her friends and older siblings. When her middle sister crashes her carefree summer getaway, Adelaide's plans fall apart. In order to help her sister, save her unexpected friendship with a guy who might just be perfect for her, and discover the truth about her own past, Adelaide...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast. In Kate Bowler's bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason, readers witnessed the ways she, as a divinity-school professor and young...
9) Perfect game
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Isaac is a perfectionist, especially when it comes to baseball, and is unable to cope when things go wrong until his coach asks him to help out with a Unified Sports basketball team on which intellectually-disabled and other children play together.
Author
Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Year after year, readers pulled me aside at events and said, "I've never had a problem starting. I've started a million things, but I never finish them. Why can't I finish? According to studies, 92 percent of New Year's reso-lutions fail. You've practically got a better shot at getting into Juilliard to become a ballerina than you do at finishing your goals. For years, I thought my problem was that I didn't try hard enough. So I started getting up...
15) The Good Egg
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
17) Not perfect
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Dot grows increasingly frustrated that she is not perfect at anything.
Author
Series
Cookie chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.
19) Alex's challenge
Author
Series
Camp confidential volume 4
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
During the last weeks of summer camp, eleven-year-old Alex Kim has trouble hiding a secret from the other girls in bunk 3C while also trying to meet the high standards she sets for herself in sports, relationships, and other activities.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
You're not supposed to be perfect-- you're supposed to be human. Gerth shares how God wants to set our hearts free from lies. She shows Christian women how to embrace what He created us to be; pursue His purpose in our lives; and offer others the love we've been freely given.
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