People Pleaser Problems | Karen Ehman | Episode 157

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Writer and speaker Karen Ehman joins Blake to talk about breaking free from pleasing people so you can live out your God-given purpose. Karen talks about how it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by others’ unrealistic expectations of you and feeling torn in dozens of different directions trying to make everyone happy. Listen in as they talk about how to break the destructive pattern of people pleasing and live abundantly in the life God has called you to.

Karen is the author of When Making Others Happy is Making You Miserable - available everywhere now!

To connect with Karen:

Website: karenehman.com

Instagram: @KarenEhman

Facebook: @OfficialKarenEhman

Pinterest: @KarenEmmanP31

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian.
0:09.8	I am your host and resident crappy Christian Blake, and every week I get to have the coolest
0:15.0	conversations with incredible people about all the things most Christians are still not
0:19.8	sure we're allowed to talk about.
0:21.7	So if you've been looking for a place to land with all your crap, and for someone to just
0:25.8	be honest about what it looks like to walk through this Christian life, or you've come
0:30.2	to the right place.
0:31.2	Pull up a seat, pop in your headphones, and tune out your kids, and come hang out with
0:35.8	me and a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been looking for.
0:40.0	Karen, hey, welcome to Confessions of a Crappy Christian.
0:43.7	Hey, thanks for having me, Blake.
0:46.1	So you are the author of this book that a lot of people are either going to need, or
0:53.1	they're going to be like, oh, that doesn't, that doesn't resonate for me.
0:56.7	Like, this is an all in or all out.
0:59.1	I think I have found type of topic.
1:01.8	The title is when making others happy is making you miserable.
1:06.5	That's like the best title ever.
1:08.8	Like, I love that so much.
1:11.6	You are self-proclaimed, recovering people, please, or, and you've written a book about
1:16.6	it.
1:17.6	Tell us a little bit about this book and kind of your experience in having to come
1:22.7	out of that.
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