People Pleasing Is a Trauma Response. Here's How to Stop | Meg Josephson

We're very hyper-vigilant of what do people think of me. When we are constantly doing that in all of our relationships, we lose connection with our inner world. That's trauma. She is a licensed psychotherapist, a certified meditation teacher, and the New York Times best-selling author of Are You Mad at Me? Today she's here to break down how to stop focusing on what others think.

about you. What is the fawn response? When we're in the fawn response, we appease the threat. We try to be liked by the threat. We satisfy it, impress it, compliment it so that we can feel safe again.

And the other person might say, no, I'm not mad at you. Yes, I still love you. Yes, I think you're beautiful. And temporarily it feels like, okay, we're good then. But then it comes right back.

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