Girlfriends, episode number 173, fighting the temptation of perfection with Colleen Carol Campbell.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to

help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. This week,

I am talking with one of my favorite authors. I am fan girling with Colleen Carol Campbell about her

newest book. Can't wait to share the conversation with you.

Hey, girlfriends. How are you? Thanks for showing up. Thanks for being a part of this episode of the Girlfriends Podcast. I'm going to be talking about perfectionism. And this is very appropriate because

by the time this podcast airs, by the time you're listening to it, I'm going to be pretty

darn close to the wedding date for my daughter who's getting married, May 26th.

That's going to come out about a week before that.

So I want to ask you, first of all, to pause, say a prayer for our family, say a prayer

for our daughter, Catery, and her fiancé, Brian, as they're preparing to be married.

So we've been praying for them all right along. And it's appropriate that we're talking about

perfectionism because even now, as I'm pre-recording this and we're still a few weeks away from

the big day, I'm fighting that battle myself with perfectionism with regard to how the event goes

and wanting to control all the things.

I think it's a very human temptation and I think it's one that we as women uniquely struggle

with. I think it's something that's kind of built into us that we kind of want that sense of

control and we want that level of perfection in the things that we do. And we can really

struggle in just turning things over to God and being reasonable in our expectations of ourselves

and other people and life events and that sort of thing. So for sure, I'm grateful to be reminded

of that as I'm putting together this podcast now a little bit ahead of time as we are preparing for that big day, May 26th.

So please do keep my daughter, catery and her fiance, Brian, in your prayers as we are preparing for that special day coming soon.

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