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The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

EP 0096 - Addressing Perfectionism w/Dr Tara Sanderson

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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For full show notes on this episode, visit https://theanxioustruth.com/96 Perfectionism. It's a label I hear frequently self-applied by many going through the process of recovering from an anxiety disorder. Labeling oneself as a perfectionist results in challenges that make recovery more difficult than it has to be. Today I was able to spend time with Dr. Tara Sanderson, a licensed doctoral level psychologist practicing in Oregon. Tara not only specializes in behaviorally or...

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0:00.0

What is up dudes and doets?

0:02.0

Drew here from the anxious truth?

0:04.0

Welcome to episode 90. What is up dudes and do debts? Drew here from the anxious truth.

0:13.4

Welcome to episode 96 of the podcast. We are closing in a hundred.

0:19.0

Today we're going to talk about perfectionism and I have a guest today which I'm thrilled about. My guest today is a doctoral level licensed psychologist. She's been practicing

0:29.8

in Oregon on the west coast of the U.S. year for over 15 years and she is right up our

0:34.5

alley this lovely woman because she takes a real behavioral approach to anxiety and

0:39.5

depression and other aspects like phase of life and relationship problems.

0:43.2

So she speaks our language and I'm thrilled about that.

0:46.2

And she's also the author of Too Much Not Enough,

0:49.4

which is a book about overachieving and perfectionism.

0:53.4

Perfectionism.

0:54.4

I know you guys want to hear about this.

0:55.8

So welcome Dr. Tara Anderson.

0:58.2

Welcome Tara,

0:58.8

thanks for coming.

0:59.6

Hello.

1:00.5

Thank you so much for having me with you today.

1:03.0

So we ran into each other on Instagram, and I dig your message,

1:08.0

and you seemed like an obvious choice.

1:10.0

Like you need to come on the podcast and talk about this.

1:11.0

And the perfection isn't thing perfect.

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