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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Do you say yes when you want to say no?
Do you do more emotional labor in nearly all of your relationships?
Are you the one everyone counts on, while no one is there for you? (Maybe you don’t even allow people to be there for you?)
If any of this sounds familiar, this episode is for you.
I had many requests to do another episode on people-pleasing, so let’s cover how people-pleasing and self-abandonment are survival mechanisms, the cost of these behaviors to us and our relationships, and how we can slowly shift into healthier ways of relating.
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0:00.0 | Well, hello there. |
0:02.5 | I'm so psyched you are here. |
0:04.1 | Welcome to this episode of the Cherry Cole show. |
0:06.7 | I'm going to start with a couple of questions. |
0:09.8 | Do you say yes when you want to say no? |
0:13.3 | Ever. |
0:14.1 | Do you overfunction for other people? |
0:16.1 | Do you find yourself doing more than your share in your relationships? |
0:19.3 | Are you the person everyone can count on? |
0:21.7 | I see you raising your hand. |
0:23.7 | But in your mind, you kind of think, like, who can I count on when I need something? |
0:27.6 | If any of this sounds familiar, wow, this episode is for you, my friend, because I'm going |
0:33.2 | to be handling all of the things about being a people pleaser, self-abendment, over-functioning, |
0:39.4 | what can you do instead, why we do it, have a deeper understanding, and to create a healthier |
0:45.3 | relationship with yourself. So before we get into it, I just want to say, if you happen to be |
0:52.0 | new to this pod, welcome. I'm so incredibly happy that you are here. |
0:57.3 | If you love it, it helps me so much. If you rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. |
1:04.8 | Yeah, before we get into it, I just want to say thanks for being here, because you guys could be doing |
1:09.0 | absolutely anything. But instead of |
1:12.8 | doing something else, you are hanging out with me, which I really super duper appreciate. All right, |
1:20.1 | let's move it on into today's episode. This is the Terry Cole show, and as you might have guessed, I'm your host, Terry Cole. |
1:39.1 | For over two and a half decades, I've been a licensed psychotherapist and relationship expert, |
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