Effective Strategies to
Overcome Your Inner Critic
and Find Balance
by Elaine A. Thomas PsyD
The never-ending pursuit of excessively high standards tied to your self-worth sets you up for much unhappiness and difficulties with your mental health. Mindfulness Workbook for Perfectionism is a guidebook to understanding your perfectionism. It illuminates how perfectionism may not serve you. Mindfulness practice targets aspects of what makes perfectionism problematic: obsessive focus on achievement of high standards, attachment to specific outcomes, and judgment of self and others. Practical mindfulness-based strategies are offered as well as evidence-based methods.