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One reason I drag my kids to Lothian, Maryland (about 20 miles south of Annapolis) once a month to visit Fr. Joe Girzone, author of the bestselling Joshua series, is so that they believe me when I tell them that all priests are not pedophiles (despite what the media says), and that some of these…

I spent an hour last week telling my therapist that I wasn’t a perfectionist, and that David’s disabling perfectionism had nothing to do with my behavior. That’s partially true. I’m not a perfectionist in that I’m a slob. My house is trashed. I can barely find matching socks in the morning, much less apply make-up.…

Hara Estroff Marano suggests the following techniques in her article, “Pitfalls of Perfectionism,” to let go of perfectionsim: Perfectionists fear that if they give up perfectionism, they won’t be good anymore at anything; they’ll fall apart. In fact, perfectionism harms performance more than it helps. The worst thing about it, says Randy Frost [a professor…
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