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The Need To Be Liked

Social Skills Coaching

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Dr. Roger Coven is a clinical psychologist and author of the book The Need to Be Liked. People pleasing has roots in natural human social behavior but it can cause problems, he says. It can stop you from doing what you want because what will they think? If your life's purpose is meeting the needs of other people, then what happens to your needs? A people pleasing life is often inauthentic, stressful and unhappy.

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