The Need to Please: Mindfulness Skills to Gain Freedom from People Pleasing and Approval Seeking

About this book

Do you have a hard time saying no to others no matter how outrageous their requests? If so you might be a chronic people-pleaser. Unfortunately because we live in a society that praises putting the needs of others before ourselves it can be difficult to break this bad habit. And while thinking of others is always commendable there is a fine line between sacrifice and senseless approval seeking. In The Need to Please a leading mindfulness expert and psychotherapist provides compassionate mindfulness-based techniques that will help chronic people-pleasers like you address and overcome your fears of failure inappropriate self-sacrificing loss of personal identity and voracious need of approval. In addition you will learn to put an end to the codependent behaviors that lie at the heart of being a people-pleaser. Change is hardespecially when it means going against years of social conditioning. But if youre ready to Just Say No to others demands and start saying Yes to your own needs this book can help. You can find out more about these mindfulness techniques at www.livingmindfully.org.