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People-Pleasing "Nice Girls": How High-Functioning Women Learn To Abandon Themselves
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You can be confident, competent, and deeply self-aware and still find yourself saying yes when you mean no, smoothing things over, and quietly disappearing in your own life. That contradiction is exactly what Mary Rothwell explores with Ludovica Colella, a CBT-trained psychotherapist and confidence coach who specializes in people pleasing, fawning, and self-abandonment for high-functioning women who are exhausted from overgiving.
We dig into the real roots of “being nice,” including gender socialization, the good girl role, and the fear that comes up when…
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