When a person believes that they “need” to please another person, especially to gain his/her love and approval, the initially balanced relationship quickly changes from inter-dependent to co-dependent. In this extreme form, the trap of people-pleasing can even lead to maintaining unfulfilling or abusive relationships, as well as submitting to or performing self-defeating behaviors such as self-starvation, substance abuse, sexual acting out, etc...

So how do we combat the dangerous consequences of perpetually putting others first? Here are a few strategies for getting your emotional health back on track? Listen to todays episode in which Dr. Vidya Reddy divulges to break through this pattern.