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Hello, dear listener and friend.

Welcome to a new episode of Awakening.

This one is going out to my fellow recovering people pleasers. I'm writing and recording this episode with the

utmost respect, love, compassion, and understanding for you, because I am a recovering people

pleaser too. And it is a working progress, as healing often is. I also know if you're listening to this

and you have an issue with people pleasing or seeking approval from others, I know that you have a

deep well of emotion, empathy, and consideration for others. I know you are probably a highly

sensitive person. I know you are likely very in tune with others' emotions and needs. These are

the traits that often accompany people-pleasing, or that make us good at people pleasing because we can sense

what others need or want from us even at a subtle level and we can accommodate sometimes contort

ourselves to meet those needs or wants from others.

As I mentioned here just in a recent episode of the podcast, I have been called to create

specific healing resources to accompany the podcast. So you can do the healing work and have a clear structure and support

for doing that inner work that's necessary to heal yourself. So for this episode, I have

created a resource and it's a guided healing journey to release people pleasing approval, addiction,

and the feeling that you have to ask others for permission to make decisions, to live your life,

to be yourself, basically to be your authentic self. So I'm excited to share this resource and I will talk a

little bit more about it as it accompanies the episode. It's a companion for the episode. So I'll talk

about it a little bit later on. But first, let's go a lot more in depth into people pleasing. So we'll set

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