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Hello everyone and welcome to edit your life. I'm Christine Co. And I'm As Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life,

so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Today's topic is modeling imperfection.

So this idea of modeling imperfection came up in episode 21, saying yes to saying no, which, by the way,

if you haven't listened to, it's a gem. I got to it really is. It's one of my favorites.

You know, I listened to it again just the other day and I was like, dang, that's good stuff.

So anyway, so we were in that episode, we were talking about how the notion, the whole idea of modeling makes so many people feel like they're in this perfection hot seat, modeling, modeling behavior for their children. And so if they don't act like sort of paragon's of perfection at all times, they are setting their

kids up for future therapy.

And so I would really like to suggest that it's just the opposite, that modeling imperfection

is what really gives our kids breathing room to make and grow from their own mistakes.

I just, I just, I'm shaking all the pom-poms.

I totally agree.

And I want to say for context and to offer a real life example that change can happen,

even if you are an incredibly stubborn person, that's a self-burn.

I think it's helpful to share that I am, in fact,

a recovering perfectionist. And I will say it's much easier to be me and quite frankly be around

me as someone who now embraces imperfection and all of its gifts. Yeah, well, I will say that

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