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Getting To The Bottom of People-Pleasing

People-pleasing is innocent when it’s done for the right purposes. We live in a social community; have relationships, and work together. At…

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Joe Gibson
Apr 05, 2023
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People-pleasing is innocent when it’s done for the right purposes. We live in a social community; have relationships, and work together. At some point, it’s necessary for us to compromise, put our needs aside, and do so for the benefit of the group.

But this should never be our mainstay.

So many of us are living behin…

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