Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy. I am your host, Steve Bissom. 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 therapies. I also want to introduce psychology

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

the subtle and not so subtle ways 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 Bissau.

If you haven't listened to episode 15 yet, I urge you to do so.

It was 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.

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