Are you the "chill" one who swallows your feelings just to “keep the peace”? While avoiding conflict might feel safe in the moment like taking out a loan, in which you will pay it back later with high interest in resentment.

In this episode, we unpack why trying to be the unbothered "Hero" inevitably turns you into the unpredictable "Villain," explaining how the "Elastic Band Theory" leads to sudden crash-outs and why silence creates a "False Intimacy" that blocks real connection.

Learn how to stop hiding your feelings and start communicating with actionable tools like the low-stakes practice steps.

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A Fixed Mindset Is Sabotaging Your Growth

If you avoid new challenges because you're terrified of failing, you aren't alone and you aren't lazy.

This mindset tricks you into believing that if you have to try hard, you must not be good enough. It forces you to prioritize protecting your ego over expanding your potential.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How childhood compliments can sabotage adult confidence.

Why we unconsciously choose safety over growth.

How to rewire your brain for resilience.

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What is self-abandonment? Why it starts and how it shows up in your everyday life. We deep dive on how growing up in unstable or emotionally unavailable homes can teach you to ignore your own needs just to feel safe and loved. You’ll learn the signs of self-abandonment. We talk about how to break this pattern.

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The fawn response is one of the 4 trauma responses: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. It shows up when we feel tension or emotional distance from others. It pushes us to people-please, over-apologize and fix things so we feel safe again.

You will learn where this pattern comes from and why approval starts to feel like safety.

You will leave with practices to start choosing yourself.

You will learn how to sit with the discomfort.

You will learn how to build self-trust.

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People pleasing teaches us to lie about our feelings, our time and our needs. We explore how it starts in childhood, carried into adulthood.

We dive into why people pleasing feels so hard to stop and how it affects our peace, boundaries and sense of self.

Unlearning people pleasing means checking in with yourself before responding. It means learning that discomfort is a part of growth. It means understanding that your worth doesn’t depend on validation.

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