Self Esteem

Dos and Donts for Recovering People Pleasers book cover

Dos and Donts for Recovering People Pleasers book

Did you grow up learning that good girls don’t get angry? Did you learn at an early age that if you did what everyone wanted or expected from you, life seemed to go at least a little bit more smoothly? Those patterns of people-pleasing are deeply ingrained in our culture, particularly for women who are […]

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Heal Your Toxic Friendships

Heal Your Toxic Friendships book

Do you have codependent or people-pleasing (a.k.a. “human doormat”) tendencies in your romantic relationships? That way of behaving affects your friendships, too! In the 6th book of the Born to Triumph series, Heal Your Toxic Friendships, you’ll learn how to identify the aspects of a healthy friendship so you know what to strive for, and

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How to Increase Your Faith in Your Power to Create

Where do we get the idea that we aren’t all inherently creative? I think it’s because we’ve been taught from an early age, generation after generation, that creativity is the province of special people, and on top of that limitation, we are only talking about something visible of a high nature such as brilliant art,

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Are You Trapped in Demand Resistance?

Have you ever been in a situation where someone asked you to do something, and you automatically refused, not because you didn’t want what the request would bring you, but because you were resisting the person doing the asking? This is called “demand resistance” and, not surprisingly, the behavior is closely tied with self-sabotage. Sometimes

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