Kindness has no motive. When we are being kind, we are being kind for the sake of being kind.

Kindness is authentic. Kindness is true. Kindness holds no expectations. People pleasing, on the

other hand, has a motive. And a lot of times it's subconscious. So it makes sense that through childhood,

if we were pleasing to our caregivers and that in return got us attention and approval and love,

that made our nervous systems feel super safe, super secure, and our brain is like, hey, let's do

this again, and let's do this again, and let's do this again and let's do this again and let's do this

again until that pattern runs so stinking deep and we don't even realize what's going on.

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