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  • Stop People Pleasing

  • Be Assertive, Stop Caring What Others Think, Beat Your Guilt, & Stop Being a Pushover
  • By: Patrick King
  • Narrated by: Steve Campbell
  • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (153 ratings)

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Stop People Pleasing

By: Patrick King
Narrated by: Steve Campbell
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Publisher's summary

Break your crippling addiction to approval and learn to be less “nice”.

Do you keep your mouth shut for fear of falling out of people’s graces? Feel that you need to please and serve to stay in your social circles? You have the need to please and all the associated beliefs. Stop bitterness, resentment, and anxiety from always saying yes.

Stop People Pleasing is a frank look at people-pleasing tendencies - where they come from, how they manifest, and exactly what to do about them. Most importantly, the audiobook emphasizes real, actionable tactics to change your relationship with yourself and others.

This audiobook was made by a recovering people-pleaser, so you can be sure there is a real understanding of your struggles. Reprogram your beliefs and learn to accept yourself.

Patrick King is an internationally best-selling author and social-skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real-life experience.

Find your voice, stand up for yourself, and put yourself first.

  • The psychological and often traumatic origins of people-pleasing tendencies.
  • The harmful beliefs you subconsciously possess and how to alter them.
  • How to learn new, empowering habits.

Learn the deep origins of your need to please and how to set healthy boundaries.

  • How to set boundaries and avoid porous ones.
  • A plethora of strategies to say no and make your thoughts known.
  • Understand your guilt and get better with confrontation.
  • How to say no and stop feeling responsible for people’s feelings.

People-pleasing is called a disease for a reason. It can cripple you and hold you back from what you want - and yet it’s all in your mind! You have the power to completely turn your life around and finally get what you want, defend yourself, and stop being so concerned with what other people think.

Above all else, learn to free yourself. Reclaim your energy, time, and life by clicking the "Buy Now" button at the top right of this page.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Patrick King (P)2018 Patrick King
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Informative

This book is a great resource for people pleasers. I will put these recommendations to use and start making positive changes.

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I liked the summaries at the end of each chapter

The narration was pleasant.
Very helpful book if one wishes to be more balanced. one word remaining....no.

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Excellent Bibliotherapy! A must go-thru for people that are too nice

I like how this goes through the reasons why people become people pleasers and pushovers- it boils down to a survival mechanism to compensate for a lack of confidence, self-worth, self-perception of not-enough strength, and not an abundance mentality. It gives better ways to say “no,” and being direct rather than saying “they can’t.” I’m at the end of a deployment in Iraq, and I feel I was a people pleaser here because I didn’t have confidence in my job, and I compensated by being sweet and a ‘yes-man.’ This is ideal for me to go though now.

It also talked about being too much of the opposite of a people pleaser (it could’ve gone more in depth on this). Being the polar opposite and being too rigid is not the best thing either. A middle-ground is better.

I agree that being too much of a people pleaser is not a good thing for everyone because then you can’t fully give yourself to what is really important. I also like the stark warnings that some people won’t like when you’re sticking up for yourself (they preferred when you didn’t have boundaries). No one likes to hear “no.” This book is excellent and very important. I want my mom to go through it also .

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Great Book

Wonderful insights. helpful information. It is definitely a game changer. listened to it twice.

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A must read

One of the best books I have ever read. The author hit it right on the head!

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Must read

This book gave me more applicable help than years of counseling did. Read this book, skip the counselor, and save all that $.

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Eye opener, you definitely know if this is you !

If this is you, the book offers solid and sensible solutions to help you change.

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say i don't instead of i can't

overall good advice, a little too broad. not focused on leadership, but more personal relationships

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Incredibly insightful to my own Havits

Would you believe that I was going to give the performance of four-star, when I definitely felt like it was a three star? That’s right. Because I didn’t want the narrator to feel bad…

I tackled to myself and put down the honest review after three stars. My people pleasing habits are already starting to change…

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Good Book

Glad that I found it on Audible. It is well written and the narrator is good.

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