Week 8: Chapter 7 — Embrace Imperfect Progress

1.Casey's central phrase in this chapter is 'imperfect progress is still progress.' How does that simple reframe land on you? Does it feel like permission, like lowering standards, or like genuine wisdom?

2.She confesses that her pursuit of the perfect life was actually a form of control — a way of managing anxiety and maintaining the appearance of having it together. Can you relate to that dynamic? How has your own pursuit of perfect functioned as control or fear management?

3.Casey argues that perfectionism actually prevents growth because it causes us to abandon things that aren't going perfectly rather than tending them through the messy middle. Name a goal, project, or relationship that you have abandoned or neglected because it wasn't going perfectly.