Have you ever felt like you are constantly striving for something that is never quite good enough? Or maybe you just feel like you're always falling a little short? If so, then this episode might be especially for you. This week’s common struggle is perfectionism. Whether we can see it in small areas or all throughout our lives, perfectionism can quickly become exhausting, exacting and exasperating! 

The “do it all” mentality of many perfectionists often leads to positive feedback from others, but all the praise can easily hide our underlying motives to the point that we can become unaware of the shame beneath our striving. Throughout this episode Alex walks us through her own journey with perfectionism and how the gospel provides freedom from the many things that can drive the perfectionism in all of us.

For Ed Welch's Shame Interrupted click here.

For Robert Thune & Will Walker's The Gospel Centered Life click here.

For Milton Vincent's The Gospel Primer click here.

You can click to listen to S1 E2 / Superpowers and S1 E3 / The "Tions": Justification, Sanctification, Glorification.

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Our theme music is by ⁠⁠⁠As Isaac⁠⁠⁠.

This podcast is made possible by engineers and producers ⁠⁠⁠Zachary Tate Smith⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Shane Selby⁠⁠⁠, executive producer ⁠⁠⁠Meleah Smith⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠generous donors⁠⁠⁠.

⁠⁠⁠Known Ministries⁠⁠⁠ is ⁠⁠⁠Alex Kocher⁠⁠⁠ and Brenda Payne. This fourth season of Conversational Counseling is called "Wisdom for life's common struggles.”