The Problem with People Pleasing with Karen Ehman | Episode 160

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Rachel Awtrey

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships

5 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Are you a people pleaser?? Have a hard time saying "no"? Today's guest, Karen Ehman, helps us break the pattern of people pleasing. This has been a huge topic among my friends and I. How do we say "no" in a kind way? Is it possible? Karen helps answer these questions! It's not all about saying "no" - it's about discerning what's for you and what's not. SUCH A GOOD TOPIC for all of us! If you feel overstretched, need some help identifying what's for you and what's not, and how to communicate that you won't be stepping in for someone when you're used to being constantly available, listen up! Shownotes: behindtheblisspodcast.com/shownotes/160 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Behind the Bliss, a weekly podcast where Rachel Autry brings conversations to you from women that share what's behind their highlight reel.
0:10.2	Each episode is designed for you to see a message from the mess and encourage you to find balance in the bliss.
0:16.4	We know that what you're facing is important for shaping who God has created you to be.
0:21.8	Some may say it's a process that often happens behind the bliss. Here's today's episode. So here's the deal.
0:32.6	Some episodes are like really fun and goofy and silly and then other episodes are a little bit more like
0:39.7	intense. This isn't necessarily an intense episode, but I will say that it's an episode with so
0:45.8	much truth in it. You're going to probably want to listen to it twice. It is all about people
0:51.1	pleasing or should I say how to stop people pleasing. Karen Eamon wrote this new
0:56.3	incredible book called When Making Others Happy is Making You Miserable, How to Break this Pattern of People
1:01.2	Pleasing and confidently live your life. And can I say it is so needed. If you are people
1:08.5	pleaser, wherever you are, put your hand up. I have so many friends
1:12.5	who have sat down with me and we've talked about this struggle we have with saying no and when to say
1:17.5	yes. And how do you say no without it seeming harsh? How do you still keep a friendship when you
1:22.6	have to maybe let a friend down? Are there times that you need to say yes even though you don't
1:27.1	want to say no or times you need to say no when you that you need to say yes even though you don't want to say no
1:27.8	or times you need to say no when you really would love to say yes? Karen is giving us so many
1:33.2	incredible answers to all these questions that I know that a lot of us have. She is a New York
1:37.5	Times bestselling author and she's written amazing devotionals. But just like us and so many other
1:42.9	women, Karen has also struggled daily with
1:45.0	people pleasing. She just got tired of focusing on everyone else's priorities rather than her
1:49.6	own, becoming constantly available and people depending on her. So she finally took a pause,
1:55.6	a deep breath and great about what it looked like to actually start saying no. And she came out
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