The Recovering Perfectionist’s Guide to Blasting Forward Into The Life You Really Want

Spoiler: It starts from within

These guides are for you if…

• You know exactly what you want, but aren’t quite sure how to get it.
• You feel stuck.
• You just spent two straight days watching Real Housewives and think maaaaaybe you should’ve been doing something else.
• You have Super Impressive Amazing accomplishments, but still feel dissatisfied and you’re not quite sure why.
• You feel like your potential is going woefully untapped.
• You have big, bright, amazing things that are struggling to break free from your comfy cocoon.

If you’re a recovering perfectionist, a proud member of the herd that thinks too much, feels more, and is occasionally guilty of trying to stuff the world into a careful little box – well, you’re a lot like me.

(Hi. I like you.)

Guess what? We’re perfect just as we are. But until you believe it way deep down in there, I’ve got your back.

These guides will…

• Help you realize that you’ve got everything you need inside you right now – every answer to every problem, even if it doesn’t look like you thought it would.
• Help you blast out of your cocoon like a heat-seeking missile butterfly.
• Help you become what you’re meant to be, what you can be, what you want to be.
• Guide you through whatever piece of life feels sticky or unmanageable or uncomfortable or fearful.
• Help you find your own happiness, even if it doesn’t look like everyone else’s. Especially if it doesn’t.
• Help you love yourself, exactly as you are, exactly where you are.
• Help you be the compass to your own true north.
• Help you realize your true creative potential until you’re making and doing the things you were born and built to create.
• Help you learn to embrace failure and rejection, for the infinite possibilities they offer. Laughing in the face of the cowering rejection beast frees you to do anything you want.
• Help you realize that what felt like flailing was really preparation to start pushing your edges. What felt like squandering was gathering the resources you need to bust free.
• Help you claim your rights as the big, shiny human you are.

{Testimonials, yo}

Nicole – @nicoleisbetter

These essays are both a comforting hug and a stern kick in the ass to be your best self. Think you can’t feel soothed and inspired at the exact same time? THINK AGAIN.

Brandy – @brandyismagic

Amber writes with an experienced heart and a brilliant brain which she uses to share her thoughtful and insightful ideas on how to win at life. Armed with a voice that demands to be heard and habits you will want to follow, Amber writes the road map to living a better life and invites you to come along.

Between retraining the “brain hamsters” that are holding you back and channeling your inner Wabi Sabi to remind YOU how to celebrate your imperfections, Amber offers realistic, easy-to-follow advice that will have you reveling in daily joy and rethinking life’s curve balls as opportunities to grow. Her inspired voice coupled with her wit and endearing charm leave the reader not only wanting more, but wanting Amber to become your best friend and volunteer as your personal Dali Lama.

Perfection isn’t what we think it is.

Perfection is messy and gleeful and has to-do lists that somehow catch fire over the sink. It’s what happens when you’re happy, even for a moment, between all the bills and messes and heartbreaks and chunky flotsam of life.

Are you ready to unhook from that “perfect” box of should and find the dream life that’s been waiting for you all along?

We all have our own stash of love and bright, bold power. You’ve already got it, you just have to dig it out and dust it off. These guides will help you dig & dust. They’ll teach you to focus on what’s inside of you, and your entire life will shift.

The Recovering Perfectionist’s Guide to Living The Life You Want 

(Get the Whole Shebang for $50 or Grab Individually for $15)

The Recovering Perfectionist’s Guide To Getting Happy Now 

Spoiler: It helps you get everything else, too.

Fifteen pages of ways folks of our perfection-loving persuasion can ease up on ourselves, love our lives exactly as they are, and start shifting in the direction of what we want – and feel calmer, richer, and happier along the way.

Plus, two tip sheets: Banishing the Brain Hamsters & Things To Remember When The Brain Hamsters Are Yammering

$15

The Recovering Perfectionist’s Guide to Work: Kicking Ass in Business and Creativity

Spoiler: You’ve got stuff inside you that the world needs. You should do it. Now.

Twenty-two pages on how to move past your comfort zone, reframe failure, work at your edges, and listen to your soul not your brain. Because your soul already has every answer you need and listening to it will get you where you want to go a hell of a lot faster.

Plus, a Goal Worksheet (includes Beyonce and dragons), and tip sheets on Meditation (it’s relevant, swearsies) & Banishing Procrastination  

$15

The Recovering Perfectionist’s Guide to the Body: Feeling Healthy, Sexy, Energetic, and Like You Can Conquer the World with Your Well-Toned Forearms

Spoiler: I’m going to make you eat vegetables.

Thirteen pages of how to get more powerful in all areas of your life by eating the leafy greens and moving your meat suit.

Plus, Hacking Your Body’s Code

$15

The Recovering Perfectionist’s Guide to Relationships: Loving Your Partner, Your Family, Your Friends, and Loving Yourself Most of All

Spoiler: When you love everything, the world jumps into your lap and starts purring.

Eleven pages on loving all the people better. Unconditional love for the non-saintlike among us, handling rejection, reframing all the feelings, and uncovering the relationships you want.

Plus, tip sheets on Loving Shit You’d Rather Avoid and Writing It Out (pen-based exercises with extra juju)

$15

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(with all guides and worksheets, plus a bonus tip sheet with the best question in the world) 

$50 

{Testimonials, yo}

Jenna Britton - @jennanicole

After reading these essays, you will want Amber to be your best friend. Her writing is witty and sincere, poignant and silly. This is a Master’s Guide in navigating the lows of existence. Life is shitty sometimes – a fact Amber doesn’t ignore – but there are ways to be happy, to be productive; to be a decisive, functioning, contributing member of society, and this essay shows you how.

I sat down to read this essay as I was doubting my own ability, and it was the perfect 10-page reminder that I fucking got this. If you want a gentle reminder that you have it in you to everything that you deep down REALLY want to do – this essay will give you that, while also giving you the actionable steps to help you remember that and remember your worth every damn day of your life.

Also, there are hamsters. Caveman, muzzle-less, perfectionist-loving hamsters who’re working to save you from saber tooth tigers. So, if nothing else, you might want to check that out.

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Raihana – @raihanaaaa

Fact: one of my favourite things about the Internet is Amber’s blog. You know how sometimes you force yourself to wait a little while before eating that delicious chocolate fudge brownie that’s been sitting oh-so-innocently on your kitchen counter, that same brownie you’ve been making eyes at all day? Because you know you’re going to feel a little bit sad once you’ve inhaled that brownie, and then there is NO MORE BROWNIE? I sometimes do that with Amber’s blog posts.

You only think I’m kidding. I AM NOT.

So I obviously freaked out (in a good way!) when Amber started offering essays for sale on her blog. I may or may not have dropped everything in order to read them on my computer when I was supposed to be doing the work that I get paid to do (sorry, bosses!). And then I got to meet Amber while I was visiting LA a little while ago, and I may have nagged her to hurry up with the Recovering Perfectionist essay series, and now the first essay in the series is here (!!!), and DUDE – it was totally worth the wait.

Because this essay is nothing short of brilliant.

I sometimes feel like Amber and I think the exact same thoughts, except she articulates it so much better than I ever could, and bonus: she’s already figured out how to tackle the Brain Hamsters (or Brain Robots, in my case). She’s figured these things out and, because she’s such a generous soul, she wants to help YOU figure it out, and she’ll make you laugh in the process (laughter = good). If you’re struggling with the Brain Hamsters/Robots/Other Types of Furry and/or Metallic Maniacal Creatures, then please, do yourself a favour and read this essay. It will help, I promise. In fact, it will help more than chocolate fudge brownies will (this is a huge call but I’m standing by it).

The Recovering Perfectionist’s Guide to Living the Life You Want

 

Indelibly Awesome Standalones

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No. 1

Why Loving Yourself Is One Seriously Fucked Up  

(Yet Ultimately Freeing) 

Process

Ten pages about loving yourself better, baby.

$3.17

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No. 2

Eyes On Your Own Paper

Ten pages about how to handle the internal stabs of jealousy and how to not get eaten by a saber tooth tiger.

$3.17

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Testimonials, yo

P.S. You guys are amazing for sending me such nice notes. Every time I get one, I vow to send more thank you letters to people on the internet.