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Beyond Perfect Parenting
By Dr. Maggie Vaughan, MFT, PhDSociety & CultureHealth & FitnessMental HealthRelationshipsKids & Family
Beyond Perfect Parenting episodes
- Parental Burnout Is Making You Feel Like a FailureParental burnout is the drive home from practice with a headache, a kid in the back seat who stopped smiling, and the fear that you are still not doing enough. You did everything right, and your child is more anxious anyway. That is not your failure. Research shows the extra hour and the extra team add nothing and cause harm.
Maggie Vaughan, psychotherapist and author of Beyond Perfect, helps families step out of the race. After this, you will know what to cut first and why warmth beats any trophy.
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CONNECT WITH MAGGIE VAUGHAN :
🌐 Website: https://www.happyapplenyc.com
🔗 All Socials: https://linktr.ee/drmaggievaughan
✍️ Substack: https://drmaggievaughan.substack.com
📧 Contact: [email protected]
📚 Book/Resource: Beyond Perfect: How Overwhelmed Parents Can Break Free From Performance Culture — https://www.beyondperfectbook.com
🧒 Resource: tapouts, mental health coaching for kids — https://tapouts.com
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About Beyond Perfect Parenting
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Your kid has the grades, the team, the schedule, and cannot sleep. You are doing everything right and feel like you are failing anyway.
Beyond Perfect Parenting is for the parent who is running…
Beyond Perfect Parenting is for the parent who is running…
on empty in a culture that grades you on your child's résumé. Dr. Maggie Vaughan, MFT, PhD, is a couples and family therapist and founder of Happy Apple NYC, an award-winning Manhattan practice specializing in anxiety, depression, and relationships.
After nearly two decades of watching performance pressure fracture families, she wrote Beyond Perfect (Wiley) and built the FIRE approach to replace pressure with connection, the strongest predictor of adult happiness. Featured by The New York Times, CNBC, HuffPost, and BBC Radio, she is non-judgmental, research-backed, and done with the guilt.
After nearly two decades of watching performance pressure fracture families, she wrote Beyond Perfect (Wiley) and built the FIRE approach to replace pressure with connection, the strongest predictor of adult happiness. Featured by The New York Times, CNBC, HuffPost, and BBC Radio, she is non-judgmental, research-backed, and done with the guilt.