People Pleasing and Sensitivity
Episode 4 season 5: Biz Cush on the Paradox of Our People Pleasing Part
Are you a people pleaser? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush talks about what happened when her people pleasing part was activated on a recent family vacation—and how she managed it.
“My people pleasing part often bumps my needs right out of the way”
Show Notes:
Imagine that you’re on a vacation in a great place surrounded by loved ones. Yet, you feel stressed and unable to enjoy the experience because you’re constantly worrying about whether everyone else is happy. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you’ve been in a similar situation where you couldn’t quite stay in what should be an enjoyable moment. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Biz Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a life coach for highly sensitive women, shares insights gained from her own experience. She talks about the overwhelm she felt and how her manager parts contributed to that stress. She explores the roots of her people-pleasing and, most important, she shares what she did to make the shift that enabled her to be fully present for a joyful experience with her family.
Listen and learn:
How our parts may show up differently today than they did in our childhood
The physical signs that our parts may be taking over even before we’re aware of them
How our manager part and people pleasing part can sabotage our experience
When we might be most vulnerable to slipping back into old patterns
What resetting and realigning ourselves might look like—and what it could gain us
One of the most important things that we, as sensitive women, can do for ourselves
How our parts mean well—and how they get in the way
How we can learn to recognize the moments when our parts start to take over
What it feels like when we strike a balance between meeting others’ needs and our own
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Awaken Your Wise Woman Episode 5-2: Martina Williams/How to Keep Overwhelm at Bay
Awaken Your Wise Woman Episode 5-3: Phoenix Gould/Growing Up with Narcissistic Parents
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