Okay, listen up. I have some questions for you.

Were you the easy kid?

The good kid. You know, the one the teachers loved.

The one who got the gold stars.

The one maybe where your parents described you as, oh, I got so lucky with her.

Were you responsible? Driven?

Even if you kind of roll your eyes, like like yeah you've kind of had it all together and now maybe you're a mom and you're an adult and you're sitting on the floor of

the bedroom at 11 p.m folding laundry that was already folded, going around, cleaning your house,

and then maybe finding yourself hysterically crying on the bathroom floor.

First of all, I'm not trying to call you out because holy moly, every single thing about

what I just said was totally me. That story was also the story of our guest today, Dr. Cassidy Freitas.

Dr. Cassidy is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and she writes about what it looks like for moms to loosen the grip of old patterns, especially patterns of perfectionism and make a little more room

for themselves or maybe for a wider version of who they could be. I'm so excited for an episode

solely focused on perfectionism because I get asked about this all the time. Or maybe I get

asked about it not explicitly, but so many of the

common questions I have can be connected through the lens of perfectionism.

I think the conversation I have with Dr. Cassidy today is going to hit you in a lot of ways.

I think it's going to hit your heart.

I think it's going to make you think about your early years.

And I think it's going to make you think about your early years. And I think it's going to

leave you with a new framework to think about some of the things that you're really, really good at,

some of the things that make you you. And we would never want to take away and maybe a slightly

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