If you’re feeling like the people YOU like, don’t like YOU -- and you don’t know why -- the first thing you want to look at is whether you are people-pleasing.
People-pleasing is the act of changing yourself to make people like you -- trying to match their interests and values, flattering them, and hiding how you really think and feel in hopes that they’ll let you in, and keep you in their lives.
People-pleasing is really common for people who were abused and neglected in childhood. It’s like a reflex to survive at any cost, but in the end it can cause us to feel unhappy and disconnected from ourselves and from any kind of meaningful relationship with other people.
And that’s just one reason why people-pleasing can be so toxic.
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