Today we're in for a treat.

We have the original host of savvy psychologist, Dr. Ellen Hendrickson, here to chat with us

about her new book.

If you're self-critical or struggle with perfectionism, this is the episode for you.

In it, we discuss how perfectionism is defined, how social media can potentially negatively

impact it, and ways to move towards self-acceptance and feeling like you're enough.

Welcome back to savvy psychologist. I'm your host, Dr. Monica Johnson. Every week on this show,

I'll help you face life challenges with evidence-based

approaches, a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment. I'm sure you're super excited. I was super

excited as well to find out what she's been doing since she's been gone. And one of those things

has been writing another book, which I've been spending my holiday season reading, and it's called

How to Be Enough. And so Dr. Hendrickson, can you tell us what led you to this book? Who is

this book for? What's it about? We're really excited to hear about it. Yeah, for sure. No, I'm excited

to be back. This feels like home. I've been spending a long time writing this book,

and it's about, as the subtitle implies, self-acceptance for self-critics and perfectionists.

And I wrote it because, well, I write about my own problems, first of all, so I wrote this book for me.

But my first book was about social anxiety. And the chapter that really

resonated with readers and audiobook listeners was, I mean, hopefully the whole book resonated,

but I got a lot of feedback about perfectionism and how, wow, I'd never thought about that

before. Like, that really is the heart of social anxiety. And so that got my

nerdy brain interested in perfectionism. And as I, you know, learned and researched more about it,

not only started to resonate myself, I was like, oh, I think this is, this explains a lot about me,

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