I Didn’t Just Learn About People Pleasing — I Lived It For most of my life, I didn’t have the language for what I was doing.I just knew that keeping my dad happy felt like survival. If you’ve been around someone who tries to control the emotional weather in the room,...

You Don’t Have to Earn Your Place: Releasing the Need to Be Needed One of the most powerful truths I’ve learned—both personally and through years of coaching—is this: you don’t have to be needed to be valuable. For people pleasers, the need to be needed is one of the...

Are You a People Pleaser? 10 Subtle Signs You’re Giving Yourself Away If I asked you whether you’re a people pleaser, you might immediately think, No, I’m just kind. I’m helpful. I care about people. And that might be true. But there’s a fine line between kindness and...