Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy. I am your host, Steve Bisa. I'm an author and

mental health counselor. Are you curious about therapy? Do you feel there is a lot of mystery about

therapy? Do you wonder what your therapist is doing and why? The goal of this podcast is to make

therapy and psychology accessible to all by using real language and straight to the point

discussions. This podcast wants to remind you to take care of your mental health just like you

would your physical health. Therapy should not be intimidating. It should be a great way to

better health. I will demystify what happens in counseling, discuss topics related to mental

health and discussions you can have with your therapist. I also want to introduce psychology in

everyday life as I feel most of our lives are in meshed in psychology. I want to introduce the

subtle and not so subtle way psychology plays a factor in our lives. It will be my own mix of thoughts

as well as special guests. So join me on this discovery of therapy and psychology.

Hi and welcome to episode 16 of Finding Your Way Through Therapy. I am Steve Bisa. If you

haven't listened to episode 15 yet, I urge you to do so as a great conversation with Jay

and a little bit about mental health and the police department and things that are related to that.

So I hope you took time to listen to it. If not, just go back and listen to it. It's really worth it.

This week I want to talk about people pleasing. People pleasing is a term that is thrown around a lot

and typically I feel is misconstrued because I think that most people say people pleasing if you

think is wrong, that means you please no one, which is also untrue. So let's define it. I've got

two definitions for you. So the first definition for people pleasing is an emotional need to please

others. And that's a simple one. I don't know if it's very encompassing, but I really like this

one that I read once and it's called editing or altering words or behaviors for the sake of others.

So basically changing who you are in order to please others. So people pleasing can be very

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