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MOMENT | How to raise children that don’t become people pleasers with Emma Reed Turrell

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8864 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week's moment episode is with Emma Reed Turrell who is a psychotherapist and author of Please Yourself: How to Stop People-Pleasing and Transform the Way You Live. Sounds good. Doesn't it? I am a people-pleaser in recovery, which you may have heard me talk about before, but it is such a huge part of my recovery and my life. And it is still very much a work in progress for me. Listen to learn how to raise children who can express their emotions, needs, and wants in a healthy way and avoid becoming people pleasers. I hope you love it. Announcement  Motherkind is the official podcast partner for The Baby Show with Lidl GB 2023. It is the UK's most popular pregnancy and parenting event and is back for its 21st year at Olympia London from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd October 2023. Use this LINK to get your ticket for just £18. Continue the Conversation Come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I just wanted to start by digging first a bit more into people pleasing.

0:09.0

You've mentioned a few times childhood gets set up in childhood.

0:12.5

Tell us how people pleasing gets set up in childhood.

0:16.9

And then part B to that question would be, how do we raise our children differently so that they're not people-pluses, so they don't need to come to read your book?

0:24.8

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1:07.7

Let's start with the first one. So how does the people please get created? It happens in lots

1:12.4

of different ways. So sometimes we might find that we have a parent who can't handle our feelings.

1:18.7

So we might have a parent who, if you can picture this, I certainly can, who can look worried or

1:24.3

concerned if we're upset. And so as a child, of course, the last thing we want to do

1:29.0

is rock the boat around a caregiver. So we might start to learn that actually our feelings

1:33.2

upset other people. So we start to find ways to kind of moderate them, modify them, bury them,

1:38.9

disown them, ditch them all together. And I think one of those impacts is of having a parent

1:43.5

who just wants us to be

1:44.7

happy. So we try very hard to please them by not having these difficult feelings. We might have

1:51.2

a caregiver who's doing all the feelings already. Maybe there was chaos growing up and actually

1:56.4

they were occupying the feelings. And as a child in the same vein, we don't want to upset our

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