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Ep. 259: The Trouble With Overgiving and Overcompensating

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

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Over giving is exploiting yourself through the guise of giving to make yourself feel needed, purposeful and worthy. For it to be genuine giving, you do so wholeheartedly and with boundaries. In your interpersonal relationships, when others do something, you then respond with what might be double, triple, quadruple, tenfold, held a hundred times their effort. If you don't make enough and go above and beyond, causes you to exploit yourself. And those underlying feelings of unworthiness distort your perception of how much you have to give in work.

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