A viral life coach offers a practical, empathetic, and inspiring guide to breaking people-pleasing patterns that can harm our careers, relationships, physical, and psychic health.
For most of Hailey Magee's life, people-pleasing came so naturally to her that she didn't even have a word for it. When somebody wanted something from hereven a strangershe gave it, no matter how uncomfortable, exhausted, or resentful she felt inside. People-pleasing, she learned, was a coping mechanism that had kept her physically and emotionally safe in the past, but wreaked havoc on her life in the presentand she was committed to breaking the pattern once and for all.
The solution that social media and self-help shelves gave her was to ';Advocate for yourself! Speak up! Set boundaries!' But after years of ignoring her feelings and needs, Magee needed more than boundaries; she needed to reconnect with the ';self' who was supposed to be doing the advocating. You can't express your
