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People pleasing: Are you choosing your life or managing everyone’s reactions? | Heidi Cullip
People pleasing can shape more than the favours you agree to or the work you take on. It can influence whether you change careers, have children, try something new or admit that the life you’ve built no longer quite fits. Are you making the choices you want or managing everyone else’s reaction to them?
Heidi Cullip, creator of The Second Half, joins me to explore the expectations we absorb about how a woman’s life should look. Heidi shares her experience of being childfree by choice and repeatedly being told she might change her mind. I talk about the scrutiny around choosing to have one…
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