Self-Help
Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You
2025·304 pages
A psychotherapist reframes people-pleasing as fawning, a trauma-rooted survival response, with stories and tools to honor your own needs.
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A psychotherapist reframes people-pleasing as fawning, a trauma-rooted survival response, with stories and tools to honor your own needs.
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Instant New York Times Bestseller From psychotherapist and social media star Meg Josephson, a groundbreaking “cure for chronic people-pleasing” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores the common survival instinct called fawning and offers “explanations, comfort, and best of all, solutions” (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author). Are you... - Constantly worried about what people think of you, if they like you, if they’re mad at you? - The eldest daughter and/o...
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Brief discussion of cultural factors that shape fawning habits
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Recurring focus on childhood neglect, dysfunction, and trauma behind fawning
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