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Discover the root cause of your perfectionism, explore the impact of perfectionism on your life, and find new, proven-effective coping skills to help you overcome your anxiety about making mistakes. This guide also includes tips for dealing with other perfectionists and discussions about how perfectionism is linked to worry, depression, anger, social anxiety, and body image.
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"From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every "recovering perfectionist" to challenge the way they look at perfectionism, and the way they look at themselves. We've been looking at perfectionism all wrong. As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google Katherine Morgan Schafler argues in The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control, you don't have to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy. For women who are sick...
4) Perfect
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Impulse volume 02
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IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
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HL 570L
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Gideon, who thinks he has his life's plan under control, suddenly gets his world turned upside down when he realizes he has feelings for his best friend, Kyle, who already has a girlfriend.
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Kitty-corn volume 2
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Unicorn wants to be as perfect as everyone seems to think he is, so when he embarrasses himself in front of Kitty he is afraid Kitty will no longer want to be friends with a not-so-perfect Unicorn.
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Discover a fresh approach to moving, fueling, and loving your good body well! So many of us feel as though accepting our bodies means abandoning any effort to improve. We look in the mirror and tell ourselves that we are going to love the skin we are in, but most days our inner self-critic is all we can hear. We constantly ask ourselves - How can I have a healthy lifestyle that will keep me motivated and inspired? - Why does it even matter how I think...
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"A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast. In Kate Bowler's bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason, readers witnessed the ways she, as a divinity-school professor and young...
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"AJ is a buttoned-up, responsible student...[and] spends every summer with her father in Florida. A free-spirited wild child, she spends as much time as possible on the beach with her friends and older siblings. When her middle sister crashes her carefree summer getaway, Adelaide's plans fall apart. In order to help her sister, save her unexpected friendship with a guy who might just be perfect for her, and discover the truth about her own past, Adelaide...
9) Jaclyn Hyde
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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HL 650L
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In this modern retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a girl's quest to be perfect unleashes chaos at her middle school -- provided by publisher.
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Lillian Stone-childhood evangelical, AOL girlfriend, and professional nail biter is always living on the edge of anxiety. From the pitfalls of a girl plagued by religious trauma, the incomprehensible yet unforgiving need for perfection, and a poorly-behaved twenty-pound beagle, this is a refreshing narrative of what it means to pick yourself when the world is telling you otherwise. Still navigating the ins and outs of adulthood, accompanied by an...
11) The good egg
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 510L
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When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
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Cookie chronicles volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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610L
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After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.
13) Alex's challenge
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Camp confidential volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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790L
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During the last weeks of summer camp, eleven-year-old Alex Kim has trouble hiding a secret from the other girls in bunk 3C while also trying to meet the high standards she sets for herself in sports, relationships, and other activities.
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A highly regarded professor of psychology at the London School of Economics, sharing contemporary evidence, explores how the pursuit of perfection can lead to burnout and depression and shows what we can do to resist the modern-day pressure to be perfect to led a more purposeful and contented life.
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You're not supposed to be perfect-- you're supposed to be human. Gerth shares how God wants to set our hearts free from lies. She shows Christian women how to embrace what He created us to be; pursue His purpose in our lives; and offer others the love we've been freely given.
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Do you feel that no matter how hard you try it is never good enough?
Do you spend too much time trying to get things exactly right in order to avoid criticism?
Does it seem that at any minute people will find out that you are not really what you seem to be?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be struggling with perfectionistic tendencies. They can serve a positive purpose in your life. But having extremely high
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You Don't Owe Anyone is for perfectionists, workaholics, people pleasers, and strivers who feel stuck in the try-hard cycle. Sharing her experiences as a life coach and recovering perfectionist, Caroline Garnet McGraw shows us how we can free ourselves from the weight of expectations and encourages us to move our lives forward without apology. Inspired by the author's viral essay "You Don't Owe Anyone an Interaction," this book invites us to make...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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750L
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Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.
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Eighth-graders Evelyn and Allie are in trouble. Evelyn's constant need for perfection has blown some fuses among her robotics teammates, and she's worried nobody's taking the upcoming competition seriously. Allie is new to school, and she's had a history of short-circuiting on teachers and other kids. So when Allie is assigned to the robotics team as a last resort, all Evelyn can see is just another wrench in the works! But as Allie confronts a past...
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