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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today we're talking to Dr.

Sasha Hines who's a developmental psychologist and mindset coach. She has a practice

grounded in psychological science and positive and developmental psychology in particular.

She helps the covertly under-fulfilled feel as good as their lives look on paper.

I wanted to have a conversation with Sasha because she has a great way of talking about

perfectionism and self-authorship in parents and adults. That really does lend itself to growing

your adult self so that you feel more comfortable in your own skin and supporting your kids.

And the particular topic today on self-authorship and perfectionism really resonates

with moms and parents who are setting out to try to do the best they can raising good humans.

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I want to talk about perfectionism in parenting specifically, but we can also talk about it more

globally. But I also want to acknowledge the very real developmentally appropriate urge to be a

perfect parent when you have a baby and to get it right because what I don't want to happen in

this conversation is that now parents are berating themselves for being

shitty parents because they're perfectionists. So I think it's such a good plan, right?

We cannot win and so that's why I wanted to have you on because I think you have a balanced

way of helping have a conversation. Do we want to be the best parents we can be

yes? Is that developmentally appropriate to have to be responsible for the growth of a whole

human or more than one human and want to get it right? Yes. Is there any way to get it right?

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