Ep #224: Receiving and the Trap of Independence
Feminist Wellness
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The Importance of Emotional Outsourcing
"My needs and desires are not important. This subconscious belief is such a doozy," she says. "It underlies our codependent and people pleasing habit of prioritizing the needs of others over our own, often because we fear that asserting our own desires will result in rejection or abandonment." It can also come from these codependency patterns where we feel the need to control and take care of others while denying our own vulnerability and need for support.
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