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The Disease to Please
- Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Who are people pleasers? They are the people who say yes, when they want to say no - the perennial nice person whose resentment is concealed behind their public “happy face”. Now best-selling author and frequent Oprah guest Dr. Harriet Braiker offers help for anyone who has ever felt the resentment of giving 100 percent of themselves to others and getting nothing in return.
The Disease to Please explodes the dangerous myth that “people-pleasing” is a benign problem. It is the first book to treat people pleasing as a serious psychological syndrome, and it breaks new ground in its approach to offer a cure.
Dr. Braiker offers a 21-day action plan for curing The Disease to Please. A daily psychological workout and skills-training program, it will help listeners replace the compulsion to comply with a more conscious and reasoned choice to care. The Disease to Please includes:
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- Anna Kidman
- 09-11-21
Excellent. Helped me more than I expected
Very nice narrating voice to listen to. The quality is professional, the story engaging, and the writing comprehensive. I was surprised to find so many familiar thought patterns, habits, and emotional tendencies I have explained so clearly in this book. Going into this book, I didn’t think I was very deep into this disease or that it could potentially be harmful. Thankfully my eyes have been opened. I am hopeful. Bless everyone that had a hand in making this accessible to me.
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- Mimi Routh
- 11-21-22
Waste of My Time and Credit
The publisher's summary is misleading. The whole thing only describes the problem deeply and from all sides. There is no help for healing, keeping records, journaling or any such thing! And the narrator is NOT Bernadette Dunne! Kate Reading introducesd herself at the beginning. No, it was not for me. It only brought back some old painful memories that I've moved past. Whoever listens will still need a lot of expensive professional counseling.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-13-22
Hard to balance usefulness
The book is structured in a way that makes people pleasing behaviors out to be almost a pathology or a syndrome. That’s not always the case. While it’s helpful to understand some of the behaviors and backgrounds, I personally felt the ability to manage my relationships were not well served with this book. It’s more interpersonal relationships for couples versus the overall concept that many of us focus on others instead of our selves.
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- Mary Cox
- 08-24-22
very informative and targeted
a out of the info here was not new to me but framed specifically around people pleasing it brought a me awareness and helped me really target the areas I need to work on.
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- Kareem A Hill
- 08-01-22
Good but doesn’t feel finished.
I like to book but I was hoping for more tips on how to heal. It felt like the whole book was about the issues from every angle and nothing on how to solve.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-05-22
Best book for People Pleasers
As a licensed counselor, I’ve been on the hunt for a deep, helpful book I can recommend to my clients…. I finally found it! This is it!!! I highly recommend this book for anyone who thinks they may have a people pleasing mindset.
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The solution to the people pleaser's "problem" isn't to fundamentally change who you are - it's to fundamentally change where you find your worth. In this freeing book, Dr. Mike Bechtle shows you stop letting your fears of rejection, criticism, invisibility, or inadequacy drive your actions and start rebuilding your sense of self-worth from the inside out. When you do, you'll discover that what you once thought of as a struggle is actually a strength.
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Serving others as a Healthy People Pleaser!
- By Lana Meadows on 02-19-21
By: Dr. Mike Bechtle
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F*ck People-Pleasing
- Start Saying No, Learn to Be More Assertive and Stop Caring of What People Might Think of You
- By: Wilda Hale
- Narrated by: Lizzie Richards
- Length: 34 mins
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As a people-pleaser, you are afraid of getting rejected and criticized. You can experience feelings of anxiety, insecurity, or even low self-esteem. Your needs most often end up coming second because you didn’t learn how to express them. This is a behavior that needs and can be unlearned!
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Stop Giving a Fck What Other People Think
- By Samuel Arnold on 11-22-20
By: Wilda Hale
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The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Stop People-Pleasing
- Finally, Put Yourself First, Set Boundaries with Confidence, and Release the Negativity in Saying No!
- By: C. Jeffrey
- Narrated by: Lauren Garvin
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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Being a highly sensitive person means you’re probably highly misunderstood and you may feel like you’re too empathetic for your own good. Your intuition and empathy create situations where you always put others first and say “yes” to everything, regardless of how you feel or what you need. As a result, you end up in unhealthy relationship dynamics that leave you exhausted, resentful, and stressed.
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Enlightening book!
- By Chaze on 01-05-23
By: C. Jeffrey
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Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices for the Chronically Nice
- By: Craig English, James Rapson
- Narrated by: Arika Escalona
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Chronic Niceness affects multitudes, causing severe anxiety and depression, crippling self-esteem, and undermining and destroying relationships. Anxious to Please reveals the primary psychological cause of Chronic Niceness: Anxious Attachment. Anxious Attachment drives the Nice Person to accommodate, acquiesce, and avoid conflict. Nice People take what they're given rather than asking for what they want, often sacrificing relationship, careers and their own integrity.
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Help for the "chronically nice"
- By lisa on 01-02-13
By: Craig English, and others
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On My Own Side
- Transform Self-Criticism and Doubt into Permanent Self-Worth and Confidence
- By: Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD
- Narrated by: Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
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After writing the runaway best seller Not Nice, Dr. Aziz returns to tackle the biggest killer of confidence: your own inner critic. That voice in your head tells you that you can’t achieve what you want or be loved for who you are, because you’re not enough. Unfortunately, most people don’t realize just how much that negative voice is running their lives, creating stress, anxiety, perfectionism, relentless business, and overwhelm.
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Life changing!!
- By Mike on 10-12-20
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The Art of Everyday Assertiveness: Speak Up. Say No. Set Boundaries. Take Back Control.
- By: Patrick King
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Stop enabling, people pleasing, and being so agreeable. The Art of Everyday Assertiveness is a guide for the chronically nice, overwhelmed, and accommodating. It is a deep psychological dive into what makes us lack assertiveness and how to systematically combat those compulsions.
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standard eighties self help baloney
- By cheri on 02-03-18
By: Patrick King
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Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
- By: Brad Blanton
- Narrated by: Brad Blanton
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In Radical Honesty, Dr. Blanton coaches us on how to have lives that work, how to have relationships that are alive and passionate, and how to create intimacy where none exists. As we have been taught by the philosophical and spiritual sources of our culture for thousands of years, from Plato to Nietzsche, from the Bible to Emerson, the truth shall set you free.
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Absolutely embarrassing audiobook production
- By A. Soergel on 02-10-16
By: Brad Blanton
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The Self-Esteem Workbook (Second Edition)
- By: Glenn R. Schiraldi PhD
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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If your self-esteem is based solely on performance, the way you feel about yourself will always depend on external factors. Your self-esteem affects everything you do, so if you feel unworthy or your confidence is shaped by others, it can be a huge problem. With this second edition of The Self-Esteem Workbook, you'll learn to see yourself through loving eyes by realizing that you are inherently worthy, and that comparison-based self-criticism is not a true measure of your value.
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This book is simply amazing
- By Anonymous User on 01-22-23
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Who the F*ck Am I?
- The People Pleaser's Guide to Self-Love
- By: Jennifer Layer
- Narrated by: Jennifer Layer
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Are you trying always to be a better you, looking for fulfillment, but still empty - struggling to communicate and connect with others, wondering who you are? Constantly contorting yourself into who you think you're supposed to be is an exhausting reality. Author Jennifer Layer untangles the web of people-pleasing patterns she'd thought kept her safe and loved, only to find that they left her empty. She shares her companionship and tools to manage your emotions, actions, and thoughts, so you can create a more peaceful, balanced relationship with yourself and the world around you.
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Helped me take a look at traits I have denied
- By J on 09-18-22
By: Jennifer Layer
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30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships
- By: Adelyn Birch
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Identifying covert emotional manipulation is tricky. You sense something is wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on the problem. This powerful book will reveal to you if manipulation is at play in your relationships. It will open your eyes. You will learn 30 tactics manipulators use to get what they want. You will also learn to spot the warning signs within yourself that expose covert manipulation is taking place, even if you can't identify the specific tactics being used.
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This book can change your life!
- By Cat O. on 04-04-18
By: Adelyn Birch
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When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable
- How to Break the Pattern of People Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life
- By: Karen Ehman, Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Karen Ehman
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable shares the refreshing, heartfelt lessons that Karen learned firsthand during her own journey of breaking free from people pleasing in order to live out her God-given purpose. Let Karen be your new go-to guide as you learn to successfully break the destructive pattern of people pleasing and start fully embracing the life God has called you to lead.
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Must Read
- By Mary Kominska on 01-02-22
By: Karen Ehman, and others