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How to Be Good to Yourself When You're Hard on Yourself

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A clinical psychologist cuts through the noise to bring you what works for social anxiety, perfectionism, and adjacent modern worries. Also some dad jokes. More at ellenhendriksen.com

About Ellen Hendriksen

Clinical psychologist, author of two books including How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists (January 2025), faculty at Boston University. I write about anxiety, human connection, and the overlap between the two.

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