The People-Pleaser Trap

If these patterns aren’t addressed, they follow you from childhood into adulthood. The behaviors you used to earn love, approval, and belonging become habits that eventually wear you down. The belief that you’re only worthy when someone else decides you are becomes a constant, invisible thread in your life. Overfunctioning at work, in relationships, or as a parent slowly turns you from a rock into a thin, flat stone that might break at any moment.