In the ruins of her own mistakes, Colleen dug into Scripture and the lives of the canonized saints for answers.
The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's But it was only after she became a mother that she started to see how insidiously perfectionism had infected her spiritual life, how lethal it could be to her happiness and her family, and how disproportionately it afflicts the people working hardest to serve God. As a lifelong overachiever who drafted her first résumé in sixth grade and spell-checked her high school boyfriend's love letters, Colleen Carroll Campbell knows something about the perfectionist trap.