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The ACT Workbook for Perfectionism

Build Your Best (Imperfect) Life Using Powerful Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and Self-Compassion Skills
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An innovative approach to help you maintain your high standards while also accepting mistakes with compassion and kindness.

This workbook uses evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you understand and overcome the unhelpful, 'dark side' of perfectionism without lowering your standards. You will learn to embrace your values, treat yourself kindly, and see mistakes in perspective instead of through self-criticism. It guides you to allow imperfection while preserving your drive for achievement, helping you break free from unhealthy perfectionism and personal paralysis.
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This workbook is ideal for perfectionists struggling to balance high achievement with self-compassion. It suits readers seeking evidence-based psychological strategies to overcome fear of failure, procrastination, and self-criticism, while maintaining their drive. Professionals, students, and anyone wishing to develop healthier acceptance of imperfection will find it valuable.

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Perfectionism be helpful when it contributes to achievement and success. But unhelpful perfectionism can prevent us from taking risks or trying new things for fear of failure. This workbook will help readers struggling with perfectionism maintain their high standards while also accepting their mistakes with compassion and kindness.

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An innovative approach to help you maintain your high standards while also accepting mistakes with compassion and kindness.

If you’re a perfectionist, you know there’s a helpful upside to pushing yourself toward excellence: achievement, success—and, hey, it can be fun and rewarding to work hard! But unhelpful perfectionism can just as easily work against you. It can prevent you from taking risks or trying new things out for fear of failure, judgment, or rejection; cause you to procrastinate; and make you feel like no matter what you achieve, you’ll never be good enough.

Grounded in evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this workbook will help you discover what drives this ‘dark side’ of perfectionism, and develop the skills you need to overcome it—without lowering your standards. By leaning in to your values and treating yourself with kindness and compassion, you’ll learn to put mistakes in perspective without wallowing in self-criticism. Most importantly, you’ll find that you can allow for imperfection, without losing your drive to achieve.

If you’re ready to stop unhealthy perfectionism from paralyzing your personal growth—and start embracing yourself as perfectly imperfect—this book will introduce you to a whole new you!

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Praised as a practical and heartfelt resource backed by science, this workbook offers numerous tools, exercises, and ideas for change. Clinical psychologist Dr Louise Hayes highlights how it helps silence critical self-talk and focus on meaningful living. Licensed psychologist Rikke Kjelgaard commends the book’s manageable suggestions for taking imperfect steps towards a fulfilling life free from fear of failure and overly high standards. The book is regarded by readers as one of the best and most helpful on perfectionism.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781684038077

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 January 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Lisa Coyne

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 481g

Pages: 232

About the Author

Jennifer Kemp, MPsych, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Adelaide, South Australia. Kemp works with adults and adolescents on issues such as perfectionism, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, and chronic illness. Kemp uses acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help people notice their experiences, make conscious choices “in the moment,” and take action toward a fulfilling life.

Foreword writer Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher. She is assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry, where she specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and OCD.

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