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How people-pleasing gets in the way
The connection between fawning, boundaries, and losing touch with your own needs.
People-pleasing and boundary-setting sit at opposite ends of the same spectrum. If your safety once depended on reading a room and keeping everyone content, boundaries can feel like abandoning the very strategy that helped you survive.
For a deeper look at this pattern, see our People-Pleasing After Trauma guide — the two topics work well together.