Break the Bonds of People Pleasing and Begin to Trust Yourself
People pleasing can feel like a straight jacket, a pattern so deeply ingrained since childhood that you can never free yourself to trust your own judgment and instincts. In our last post, we explored how this pattern becomes a way of life through a long series of repeated experiences when essential needs are not adequately met, […]
How People Pleasing Can Become a (Demoralizing) Way of Life
Self-knowledge is the essential first step toward making changes that improve wellbeing. When you find yourself stuck in a self-destructive pattern of behavior, you’ve actually already begun to turn your life around—by recognizing the pattern for what it is. In our last post, we began to unravel the complex emotional underpinnings of an all-too-common behavior […]