Today I’m really excited to share my conversation with Monica Denais, LatinX Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor in Dallas, Texas. Monica was also a huge support to me in starting this podcast.  We talk about the struggles of perfectionism, as well as how to identify and overcome these traits.  Monica and I share our own struggles with perfectionism and how we have helped ourselves and our clients to cope and transform this way of thinking.    

This episodes dives into:

• The positive twist of perfectionism and how to utilize it for good.
• How to identify perfectionism.
• How perfectionism shows up in various stages and cycles of life.
• Diving into the roots of perfectionism.
• Impact of your family of origin and the roles within our family system on perfectionistic tendencies. 
• Justine & Monica share their own stories which led them to perfectionistic habits.
• How standards of communities and cultures impact perfectionism.
• The relationship between anxiety and perfectionism.
• The connection of procrastination and perfectionism.
• Shame as the driving force of perfectionism.
• Various models of therapy that support perfectionistic tendencies.

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