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You Don’t Have To Meet Other People’s Needs To Meet Yours
Somewhere along the way I picked up the idea that pleasing people was the key to my happiness. Like the typical people pleaser, I believed that meeting other people’s needs, expectations, and desires, was somehow going to meet my own needs. What I failed to realise is...
I’m A Recovering People Pleaser
I, Natalie Lue, am a recovering people pleaser. Suppressing my needs, wants, expectations, feelings and opinions (people pleasing) is as natural to me as breathing. As a result, it's become part of my daily self-care to be conscious, aware and present about where and...
Why we’re not going to be happy being and doing the things that make us unhappy
Whenever I ask people what they want, I invariably hear variations of, "I just want to be happy". Many of us are obsessed with the pursuit of happiness. Because we don't, for instance, have a Brady Bunch family or a perfect past, or even a blemish-free relationship...