
When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable
How to Break the Pattern of People Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life
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Karen Ehman
About this listen
Are you overwhelmed by others' unrealistic expectations of you? Do you feel torn in dozens of directions as you try to make everyone around you happy? If you're ready to end the cycle of approval seeking, New York Times best-selling author and recovering people pleaser Karen Ehman is here to help!
When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable shares the refreshing, heartfelt lessons that Karen learned firsthand during her own journey of breaking free from people pleasing in order to live out her God-given purpose. Let Karen be your new go-to guide as you learn to successfully break the destructive pattern of people pleasing and start fully embracing the life God has called you to lead.
With equal parts humor and vulnerability, Karen explores why it's so easy to fall into people-pleasing behaviors and reminds us that we can't fulfill our divine purpose if we're too busy living everyone else's. She offers her timely advice for living with less overwhelm and with more peace and purpose, sharing words of wisdom that will help you:
- Prioritize what God says above what other people think
- Live your life without worrying about the opinions and expectations of others
- Cultivate a strategy for knowing when to say yes and how to say no
- Create and maintain healthy boundaries with the pushers, pouters, guilt bombers and others who try to call the shots in your life
- Learn to navigate the tension between pleasing God and loving your community
Join Karen as she encourages you to walk closely - and confidently - with our loving Creator, despite the opinions and expectations of others. It's time to end the people-pleasing game and finally enjoy the peaceful and purposeful life that you deserve.
A self-assessment quiz, memory verses, and additional resources are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Keep It Shut explores the hows (and how-not-tos) of dealing with our own words (and our silences), so that you can reduce regret and relational tension and deepen your relationship with God, the one true Word.
By: Karen Ehman
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When to Walk Away
- Finding Freedom from Toxic People
- By: Gary Thomas
- Narrated by: Gary Thomas
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Your life's calling is too important to let toxic people take it away. In When to Walk Away, Gary Thomas - best-selling author of Sacred Marriage - draws from biblical and modern stories to equip you with practical insights to handle toxic people in your life and live true to your God-given purpose.
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Don’t be trapped by the idea that a good Christian just has to endure toxic abuse. You can walk away.
- By S White on 02-08-20
By: Gary Thomas
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I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet
- Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
- By: Shauna Niequist
- Narrated by: Shauna Niequist
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Just after her fortieth birthday, author Shauna Niequist found herself in a season of chaos, change, and loss unlike anything she'd ever faced. She discovered that many of the beliefs and practices that she usually turned to were no longer serving her.
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It’s ok but feels unfinished
- By andern on 05-05-22
By: Shauna Niequist
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Your Difference Is Your Strength
- A Guide to Accepting Yourself -- for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Out of Place
- By: Kris Ferraro
- Narrated by: Kris Ferraro
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just...different. It’s the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too “weird” and who grew up into an adult who still isn’t quite sure where they fit in or if they even want to. It’s a book for you. In Your Difference is Your Strength, Kris Ferraro, author of Manifesting, invites the oddballs and underdogs of the world to stop hiding, minimizing, or disguising their differences and instead embrace them in a powerful new way.
By: Kris Ferraro
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18 Minutes
- Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
- By: Peter Bregman
- Narrated by: Peter Bregman
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review column (one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 Minutes clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items that are truly the top priorities in our lives.
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Really great system
- By Anthony on 02-15-12
By: Peter Bregman
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You're Going to Make It
- 50 Morning and Evening Devotions to Unrush Your Mind, Uncomplicate Your Heart, and Experience Healing Today
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Lysa TerKeurst
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Incorporate a new rhythm for those days when life feels too hard through the daily practice of receiving and releasing—receiving God's encouragement, instruction, and truth to start your day and releasing to God all that's weighing you down at the end of each day. He'll set you on a path toward healing. In this 50-day devotional, New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst helps you stay connected to God and continue loving others even in the middle of discouraging, disappointing, or even devastating circumstances.
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So, so good for this widow’s heart!
- By LuluGrace on 06-01-23
By: Lysa TerKeurst
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The Emotionally Destructive Relationship
- Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
- By: Leslie Vernick
- Narrated by: Leslie Vernick
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Leslie Vernick, counselor and social worker, has witnessed the devastating effects of emotional abuse. Many, including many in the church, have not addressed this form of destruction in families and relationships because it is difficult to talk about. With godly guidance and practical experience, Vernick offers an empathetic approach to recognizing an emotionally destructive relationship and addresses the symptoms and the damage with biblical tools.
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EYE OPENING!
- By Tamara Adame on 01-22-25
By: Leslie Vernick
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The Right Call
- What Sports Teach Us About Leadership, Excellence, and Decision-Making
- By: Sally Jenkins
- Narrated by: Sally Jenkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Sportswriter Sally Jenkins has spent her entire adult life observing and writing about great coaches and athletes. With her engaging and expert prose, she has helped shape the way we view these talented sports icons. But somewhere along the line, she realized, they had begun to shape her. Now, she presents the astonishing inner qualities in these same people that pushed them to overcome pressure, elevate their performances, and discover champion identities.
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one of the best reads in sport science
- By Allaire on 04-14-24
By: Sally Jenkins
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Two Years
- Quest for Money, Purpose, and Love
- By: Max Tower
- Narrated by: Dalan Decker
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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LET GO. TRUST. RECEIVE. That is precisely what Max had to do. He felt stuck in his life and was yearning for something more meaningful. After years of working in investment banking in Frankfurt, London, and New York, he finally pulled the trigger to quit his job–or rather, ego-identity? What followed was two years of world travel, significant personal transformation, and rediscovery of our true essence.
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On the hunt for a sea change
- By Jacqueline Landry on 06-30-24
By: Max Tower
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Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart
- 50 Devotions for Sleeping Well in a World Full of Worry
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Ginny Welsch
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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What lies heaviest on your heart as you lay your head on your pillow? Are paralyzing fear and anxiety stealing tomorrow's peace? Listen to this invitation from Jesus: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28 NIV). Experiencing this kind of rest won't come from escapism, more vacation days, or stuffing our feelings. Jesus Himself provides rest to our weary souls. While He may not always fix everything right away, we can fix our thoughts on His Word.
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Daily Encouragement
- By Michelle Kizer on 09-19-24
By: Lysa TerKeurst
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Seeing Beautiful Again
- 50 Devotions to Find Redemption in Every Part of Your Story
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Lysa TerKeurst
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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In the middle of the pain you didn't cause, the change you didn't want, the reality you didn't know was coming...your life can still be beautiful. We all have stories full of sorrow and celebration. But with God, there's always more going on than what we see. New York Times best-selling author Lysa TerKeurst encourages you to hope again through 50 devotions that will help you find redemption in every part of your story.
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One of the best devotionals
- By Christina on 09-25-21
By: Lysa TerKeurst
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On Self-Hatred
- Learning to Like Oneself
- By: The School of Life
- Narrated by: Rachel Lanning
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don’t like ourselves very much. We are sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It’s because of self-hatred that we tend to neglect our potential at work and get entangled in unfulfilling relationships, that we lack confidence in our social lives and suffer from anxiety, despair and imposter syndrome.
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Useful ideas to reflect on
- By Kevin on 08-14-24
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- ER
- 11-09-23
Life Changing
One of the most profound books I’ve experienced in my life. And it came to me when I needed it most. Thank you, Karen.
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- Mary Kominska
- 01-02-22
Must Read
So many ahas!! Being on a boundaries journey for the past 3 1/2 years Karen helped me see more holes with action steps to continue on my growth!!! thank you ❤
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- Anonymous
- 11-25-21
Life changing
This book is life changing. My sin was called out, but I know I’m forgiven. I have life changes to make, priorities to revisit, and confessions to share. I will now consider myself a recovering people pleaser.
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- Rachel Bullard
- 10-07-24
Glad I’m not the only one
So glad to confirm that I’m not the only one going through this. This helps me have a plan for my personal development and that’s really what I needed the most.
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- ~K*Sea~
- 02-26-22
Warning: Extremely Christian!
The book had some really good things to say and she did add some research in there, but it is heavily Christian with a lot of scripture and the general point being to put God first in your life. I did not realize this book was even going to be a Christian one, but the narrator did a good job and she did have a lot of interesting personal stories and things to say. That being said, if I had known how much of it would be sermons, I would’ve passed on it.
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- Kimberly Stevens
- 01-22-22
Putting it all in perspective
A great listen. Nice isn’t in the Bible, what? I’m humbled to have found this book, Now, putting the wisdom into practice.
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- J. McAuliff
- 03-11-25
Be thoughtfully in control of your time & decisions without guilt.
If you often feel pulled in different directions, feeling pressured to ALWAYS say, “YES”, allowing guilt to drive your decisions because you don’t wanna “disappoint “, This book is a must read(more than once) …Find excellent advice & biblical support to recovering from, the People Pleasing lifestyle. It’s filled with relatable situations, humor, and excellent guidance to make necessary changes within ourselves.
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- hook
- 01-09-25
Read Boundaries by Cloud & Townsend instead
This book description says "break the destructive pattern of people pleasing and start fully embracing the life God has called you to lead. " She did not effectively cover the second part at all. And the first part was a beginner's guide to setting boundaries - which she didnt get to saying it until Chaper 9. (Then she talked about not burying the lead in Chapter 10-- LOL.) The way she rambled about how to manage your annoying friends in the first half was filled with "me first" selfishness that did not align with the life God is calling us to lead.
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- Susan K Nasim
- 04-06-25
Very Elementary
This book is so basic and nothing new. Could have been summed up in one sentence: When someone asks you to do something and you are too busy or overwhelmed, say no. The end.
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- Nikki B
- 01-15-24
Just ok
I wanted to love this but it felt like other author’s book/ideas were re-written in her own words and she just added her life stories or examples. There were a lot of times I thought, “I should have just bought that persons (woman she references a lot) book instead.”
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