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Misha Gerrick's avatar

Yeah I definitely felt this. I'm also a reforming overachiever and people pleaser. It can be a hard habit to break because it's so deeply engrained. At least now that we know to identify the problem, we can hopefully learn from it and get better about not taking on too much.

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Rachel D. Adams's avatar

I felt this. People-pleasers and people-fixers... we are all learning in our middle-age stages we cannot be responsible for everyone and everything. And also, those inner voices from our past that tell us people think the worst of us - we need to silence those inner voices.

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