I will be looking at the misnomers behind positivity and success. I will also be looking at the notion of perfection and how we have potentially reached untenable aspirations and expectations of ourselves and others. I will be exploring the notion of winning and losing at life and it’s historical influencers. Finally I will be tackling the demands that we put upon ourselves to be the perfect parent and how we can use consolation and compromise to nurture and deepen the relationships that we have with our children, our partners and ourselves and be essentially ‘good enough’ a phrase coined by the famous psychotherapist Donald Winnicott at the turn of the 20th Century. References: Donald Woods Winnicott FRCP (7 April 1896 – 25 January 1971) was an English Paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology who coined the phrase “good enough mother” in 1956. Alain de Botton https://www.theschoollife.com/london/ Judith Y Locke, The Bonsai Child, Paddington QLD, 2015 Toby Ouvrey – hhtp://integralmeditationasia.com