Episode 272: Dr. Ellen Hendriksen | How to Be Enough: Perfectionism, Shame & Self-Worth in Recovery

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When we're swimming in it, we just don't realize it's there - it's just our reality.

Clinical psychologist Ellen Hendriksen discusses her book 'How to Be Enough' on the Food Junkies podcast, exploring how perfectionism drives self-criticism, disordered eating, and the binge-restrict cycle. The conversation covers the origins of perfectionism in genetics, family, and culture, the difference between shame and guilt, how to shift from rigid rules to freely chosen values, and why self-compassion is not letting yourself off the hook.

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