The Need to Please
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ISBN: 9781608826087
About the Book
Do you have a hard time saying no to others, no matter how outrageous their requests? If so, you might be a chronic people-pleaser. Unfortunately, because we live in a society that praises putting the needs of others before ourselves, it can be difficult to break this bad habit. And while thinking of others is always commendable, there is a fine line between sacrifice and senseless approval seeking.
In The Need to Please, a leading mindfulness expert and psychotherapist provides compassionate, mindfulness-based techniques that will help chronic people-pleasers like you address and overcome your fears of failure, inappropriate self-sacrificing, loss of personal identity, and voracious need of approval. In addition, you will learn to put an end to the codependent behaviors that lie at the heart of being a people-pleaser.
Change is hard-especially when it means going against years of social conditioning. But if you're ready to “Just Say No,” to others' demands and start saying, “Yes” to your own needs, this book can help.
You can find out more about these mindfulness techniques at www.livingmindfully.org.
Contributors
Books by Micki Fine
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Praise
-Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
-Bob Stahl, PhD, coauthor of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Living with Your Heart Wide Open, and Calming the Rush of Panic
-Zindel V. Segal, author of The Mindful Way through Depression and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto
-Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, director at the Oasis Institute for Professional Training and Education at the Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical School
-Kristin Neff, author of Self-Compassion
-Linda Bell, PhD, professor of communication and family health, Indiana University, and a mindfulness-based family systems therapist and supervisor
-Steve Flowers, MFT, author of The Mindful Path through Shyness and coauthor of Living with Your Heart Wide Open
-Terry Hershey, author of The Power of Pause and Soul Gardening
