324: Katherine Morgan Schafler on What Perfectionism Really Is, Emotional Illiteracy, and How to Leverage Perfectionism for Your Good

This week, we’re talking about perfectionism, losing control, emotional illiteracy, and what Wall Street, Google, and children have in common. Joining us in Katherine Morgan Schafler, a psychotherapist based in New York City, who regularly contributes to The Huffington Post, Forbes, ELLE, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Reader’s Digest, Bloomberg Businessweek, and In Style. Additionally, she was the on-site therapist at Google.

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Dive Deeper:

If you enjoy this episode with Katherine, I’m sure you’ll also enjoy the following:

• 319: Dr. Alison Cook on The Cocktail of Codependency, Learning Surrender, and the Dysfunction of Spiritual Bypassing
• 260: Self-Defeating Behavior, Living a Lie, and the Path to Inner Peace (feat. John Mark Comer)

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