The Perfection Detox

By: Petra Kolber

Narrated by: Petra Kolber

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Award-winning fitness professional and consultant shares a practical, accessible program to help women replace destructive perfectionistic mindsets with concrete strategies and life-changing tips.

Tired. Stressed. Overwhelmed. Just one more email, one more meeting with the kid's teacher, oh and lose that last five pounds. Today, women are striving for perfection more than ever - and feeling like failures for not meeting unattainable goals. Health and wellness expert Petra Kolber knows this intimately; as a dancer and fitness professional, she's experienced the ultimately dissatisfying quest for perfection. Her Perfection Detox program helps women to overcome the unhealthy, unproductive demands we place on ourselves - and others. Based on her popular workshops, Kolber's strategies help women to recognize and constructively root out the perfectionistic impulse to be critical of self or others and to harness the power of our own internal resources, willpower, and habits.

With simple steps and strategies such as adjusting your internal monologue, cleaning up your vocabulary to include more positive language, becoming a passionist rather than a perfectionist, and more, The Perfection Detox is an essential guide to a healthy, full, authentic life.

©2018 Petra Kolber (P)2018 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"Embarking on Petra Kolber's detox program, will leave you lighter, healthier, and happier. The prescriptions in the book add up to a near-perfect antidote to perfectionism." (Tal Ben-Shahar, lecturer and author of The New York Times best-seller Happier)

"If the affliction of perfectionism is causing you pain and eroding your relationship with yourself and others, then it is time for the Perfection Detox. Petra's message is simple and yet profound! The 21-step program sets the stage for a future where doubt demons don't control your actions and where you ultimately get to enjoy the life you deserve filled with possibility. Taming your inner critic is a valuable life lesson for us all!" (Kathy Smith, The New York Times best-selling author and fitness icon)

"The Perfection Detox will change the way you think about life and success. In a fast-moving, hard-charging world, it's easy to drive ourselves to despair with impossible metrics and a belief that we're never enough. Petra Kolber teaches us how to thrive in a new and better way." (Dorie Clark, author of Reinventing You and adjunct professor, Duke University Fuqua School of Business)

Better book to read

It was good, but without the opportunity to write down or mark up a book, it lost some of its value. Still a great listen with valuable information.

Need this on repeat!

Petra gives useful tips to stop living in perfectionism. Thank you for telling me everything I needed to hear!

Perfectionist in detox!

This book was incredibly helpful in detoxing from perfectionism. I learned so many amazing tools, tips, and strategies to shut down my inner critic and start enjoying my life in the moment. My perfectionism isn’t the asset I’d once thought and letting go won’t impact my success in the future. Really powerful insight. Thank you, Petra for your wisdom and sage advice.

This was emotionally painful

I got a lot out of this book and would have loved to have given it 5-stars across the board. (I have a feeling that might have made the author feel that her book was everything she wanted it to be...) However, the book mostly made me feel bad about myself. It made me feel that somehow I was at blame for falling short in my attitudes and likeableness. The 12 zillion people who she had to name in gratitude for their support left me feeling like I was undeserving... I will probably go back to this book to reconsider some of the exercises, but only in small doses when I have the energy to withstand the gospel of still not enough.

Love all the tools in this book!

I started it in audible and had to get the hard copy too! It’s so good and so many practical lessons, I had to order the hard copy to highlight the tools and write down my thoughts. I’m reading it a second time to go deeper. Thank you so much for putting this much value out to the world.

Great inspirational listen

loved listening to this but really need the hard copy to do the exercises in each chapter

Great at Healing that "Perfect" Part of Ourselves

This book helped me see where I was striving to be perfect and has helped me be more mindful of my "perfection" traits.

useful tools to put into practice now

I will keep this book close for future reference as I work to shed the need for everything to be perfect

This was written for me

I’m detoxing as we speak! And if you have to detox from a life of perfectionism, then this book is for you too. Thank you!

INCREDIBLE

Loved the vulnerability of Petra and all the tools provided to truly step out of perfectionism!