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Happy new year! I don’t know about you, but 2019 was a wild ass ride. I’d bet good money you’d say the same about your own journey through the last year of the decade. On a global scale we’re facing political divisiveness that just gets uglier and uglier and climate change that leaves entire continents on fire. (Oh my God, Australia.) We keep seeing school and mass shootings, our suicide rate is climbing, and anxiety, depression, and autoimmune disorder rates are escalating too.

In this week’s episode, In Praise of the Little Bits, I talk a bit about my own journey with perfectionism, starting in my childhood. I was raised by an authoritarian ex-military father, in an evangelical church, and in public school. Each of these three pillars of my life asked me to be a certain way—a way that I, fundamentally, could not be. As a result, I picked up a lot of programming about how I wasn’t good enough, that I was broken, that I couldn’t be loved.