Image: Inna Podolska on Unsplash Monica and Annette explore "shame" this week: "I can't afford to buy a house" or "My partner left me". What provokes it, how it feels, how to counteract it, and how empathy and understanding can help.

SHRINKSCHAT SPECIAL: Recovering Perfectionism

Each week, Relationship Therapists Monica Burton and Annette Reiter discuss medical and mental health issues, and answer your questions. They bring more than 30 years of counseling experience. These conversations will help educate and inform listeners about mental health issues affecting life in our American culture and the human experience in general.
The lively conversations will address the complexity of a variety of topics, from ADD to Zoloft, and answer questions that only expert therapists understand. Burton and Reiter will make the complex simple and become your general practitioners for mental health issues. They will coach you through the balancing act of your mental and medical well-being within your family as well as many other relationships