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When You Feel Like a Burden: People Pleasing and Honoring Your Needs

When you feel like a burden, it’s easy to convince yourself that everyone else’s needs matter more than your own. In this episode, MaryAnn shares a powerful, real-life story from a sleepless night in the hospital that highlights how quickly people-pleasing can take over—and how it leads us to minimize even our most basic needs. This conversation will help you shift from “either/or” thinking to both/and, so you can honor your needs without guilt.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why you feel like a burden (and how that belief is created)
• How people-pleasing causes you to invalidate your own needs
• The “both/and” mindset that allows space for everyone’s needs
• How this pattern shows up in friendships, relationships, and work
• Why speaking up is actually a gift—not a burden

Challenge for the Week
Notice when you think, “I don’t want to be a burden.”
Then ask yourself: “What if both of our needs matter here?”

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