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177: Understanding People Pleasing with Natalie Lue

The Couples Therapist Couch

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The Importance of Not Saying No

Natalie Portman says people pleasing is a coping and survival strategy that you learned in childhood as a way to try to gain. Potention, affection, approval, love and validation,. Or to avoid conflict, criticism, additional stress, disappointment, loss, and rejection. Not saying no damages our emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing, but it also erodes our intimate relationships with each other.

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