The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

We’ve been having a look at perfectionism all improper. As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google Katherine Morgan Schafler argues in

Which of the five types of perfectionist are you? Classic, intense, Parisian, messy, or procrastinator? As you identify your unique perfectionist profile, you’ll be able to learn to manage each and every form of perfectionism to work for you, not against you. Beyond managing it, you’ll be able to learn 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 writer’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. In the end, this book will show you how to make the single greatest trade you’ll ever make in your life, which is to exchange superficial regulate for real power.