How to Be Enough Quotes

“Purpose isn’t discovered, all at once, like a treasure chest, nor is it something we keep to ourselves, without connection or benefit to others. Instead, it’s an ever-evolving sense of what’s important to you.”
― Ellen Hendriksen, How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

“Mistakes are part of the package deal of trying something new.”
― Ellen Hendriksen, How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

“As for me, I am still perfectionistic—I still have high standards and expect a lot of myself.”
― Ellen Hendriksen, How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

“The biggest don’t-feel-good rule I encounter with clients is having fun means I’m out of control.”
― Ellen Hendriksen, How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

“Indeed, procrastination can have big implications if we put off, say, getting a colonoscopy or a mammogram, ending a bad relationship, or getting out of a toxic job.”
― Ellen Hendriksen, How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

“line the day before Thanksgiving.”
― Ellen Hendriksen, How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

“There are at least two answers to Gus’s question: connection and enjoyment. To come home to our lives—to shift away from overvaluing our performance—we’ll move some of our proverbial eggs from the basket of performance to the baskets of connection and enjoyment.”
― Ellen Hendriksen, How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

“Ultimately, the message is you’re not enough the way you are; you need achievements and signifiers to be enough.”
― Ellen Hendriksen, How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists