Does your people pleasing come from a survival need?
If you google terms like people pleasers or people pleasing, you’ll find many articles on this topic, including definitions, symptoms, causes and how to stop being a people pleaser. In this post, I don’t intend to repeat what’s already out there. Instead, I’ll do an honest deep dive into my own compulsion to please people. What you’ll discover is that underneath all the unhealthy sacrifices I make for people is a baby who desperately tries to make her mother smile but fails miserably every time.
A Discussion on Childhood Depression
Do adults underestimate the complexity of children’s emotions? Many of us think children are open books. They cry when they’re in pain. They laugh when they’re excited. Because they reveal their emotions so freely, we assume they’re simple and transparent beings. This assumption could put us in a situation where we ignore or underestimate the complexity of our children’s emotions.
