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Striving for Perfection Can Backfire & Sabotage Your Relationship

From the Show: Health Radio
Summary: Is it really so bad if you're a little imperfect?
Air Date: 8/28/15
Duration: 10
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guest Bio: Jane Bluestein, PhD
Jane BluesteinEducator and award-winning author Dr. Jane Bluestein has been a classroom teacher, volunteer counselor with high-risk teens, and has worked with educators, counselors, and parents world-wide.

She currently heads Instructional Support Services, Inc., a consulting and resource firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her latest book is The Perfection Deception: Why trying to be perfect is sabotaging your relationships, making you sick, and holding your happiness hostage.
  • Book Title: The Perfection Deception: Why trying to be perfect is sabotaging your relationships, making you sick, and holding your happiness hostage
Striving for Perfection Can Backfire & Sabotage Your Relationship
When you're in a relationship, you may have certain expectations about how your relationship should go.

Striving for perfection, though, could actually backfire.

Perfection can be a double-edged sword. While striving to do your best and look your best is generally a good thing, it can become a bad thing if you start to feel like a failure when you fall short.

This is becoming a huge problem in society today; exacerbated by a celebrity-driven culture that worships beauty and perfection.

Is it really so bad if you're a little imperfect?

Jane Bluestein, PhD, shares how trying to be perfect can backfire and ruin your relationships with the people you love.