The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593329528)

Selected for USA Today's Best Books of 2023

Selected as Editor's Pick in Amazon's Best Books of 2023

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 of being given the generic advice to "find balance," a new approach has arrived.

Which of the five types of perfectionist are you? Classic, intense, Parisian, messy, or procrastinator? As you identify your unique perfectionist profile, you'll learn how to manage each form of perfectionism to work for you, not against you. Beyond managing it, you'll learn how to embrace and even enjoy your perfectionism. Yes, enjoy!

Full of stories and brimming with humor, empathy, and depth, this book is a love letter to the ambitious, high achieving, full-of-life clients who filled the author's private practice, and who changed her life. It's a clarion call for all women to dare to want more without feeling greedy or ungrateful. Ultimately, this book will show you how to make the single greatest trade you'll ever make in your life, which is to exchange superficial control for real power.

Author: Katherine Morgan Schafler
ISBN-10: 059332952X
ISBN-13: 9780593329528
Publisher: Portfolio
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.34w x 1.25d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/07/2022
Library Journal 12/16/2022 pg. 1
BookPage 01/01/2023