Inside higher ed
The Week
“You Don’t Have to Earn Your Mental Health Struggles”
Teen Vogue
“The Effortless Perfection Myth Explores the Pressures and Anxieties Young Women Face”
“Intimate Justice Provides Answers About the ‘Gray Areas’ Rape Culture Doesn't Seem to Answer For”
She Knows Media
“‘Effortless Perfection’ Is A Feminist Issue”
“4 Things Your Well-Behaved Daughter Secretly Needs from You”
MS. Magazine
“Shrill and The End of Settling for Less”
“Almost Perfect: Why Booksmart Did Not Click with GenZers”
“What Lizzo Knows About Fighting to Feel Like ‘Enough’”
Rewire News
“If Only We Valued Women Politicians Like We Admire the Hardcore Heroines of Game of Thrones”
National Association of Independent Schools
3 Helpful Scripts for Teachers with Anxious, Perfectionist Students [PDF available here]
elite daily
“How Idealizing The 'Good Girl' Image Teaches Women To Put Themselves Last”
“Why So Many Women Are Still Being Taught To Base Their Self-Worth On Others”
COVEY CLUB
“How to Tell If Your Self-Sufficient Daughter Is Actually Struggling”
MEDIUM
“Caralena Peterson On How To Get Past Your Perfectionism And ‘Just Do It’”
Garnet News
“Eyes on the Prize: Why Effortless Perfection Assumption Harms Us All”
Women’s E-News
“Beyonce’s Homecoming: A Lesson in Black Excellence and Vulnerability”
Bustle
“I Didn’t Realize How Common Sexual Assault Was, Until I Almost Witnessed It”
zibby mag
“The ‘Effortless Perfection’ Myth Is Affecting the Mental Health of Young Women”
Geaux Girl!
National Eating Disorder Association Blog
“What Therapy Taught Me About Disordered Eating”
The Chronicle (Duke)
“Pursuing an Image vs. Developing an Identity”
“Dedicated to Those Who Need This Article the Most”
“How to be "Enough" in an All-or-Nothing Culture”
“A Call to Affiliated Upperclassmen”
“Fat”
“The Paradox of Reporting Rates”