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Why You Keep Chasing Approval — And How to Rewrite the Script

What if your people-pleasing and perfectionism are not who you are — but approval scripts you learned in childhood?

In this episode, Kim Gross celebrates six years of the Masks Off podcast during Inner Child Month and explores the unconscious rules many of us learned about how to be loved, safe, and accepted.

These approval scripts can sound like: don’t upset anyone, be good, get it right, blend in, and make sure everyone else is okay.

Kim shares how achievement and external validation reinforced her own “good girl” identity, and how these scripts can show up today through saying yes when you…

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