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 - introduction

Narrated by: Karen Ehman

Are you overwhelmed by others' unrealistic expectations of you? Do you feel torn in dozens of directions as you try to make everyone around you happy? If you're ready to end the cycle of approval seeking, New York Times bestselling author and recovering people pleaser Karen Ehman is here to help!

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.

With equal parts humor and vulnerability, Karen explores why it's so easy to fall into people-pleasing behaviors and reminds us that we can't fulfill our divine purpose if we're too busy living everyone else's. She offers her timely advice for living with less overwhelm and with more peace and purpose, sharing words of wisdom that will help you:

• Prioritize what God says above what other people think
• Live your life without worrying about the opinions and expectations of others
• Cultivate a strategy for knowing when to say yes and how to say no
• Create and maintain healthy boundaries with the pushers, pouters, guilt bombers and others who try to call the shots in your life
• Learn to navigate the tension between pleasing God and loving your community

Join Karen as she encourages you to walk closely--and confidently--with our loving Creator, despite the opinions and expectations of others. It's time to end the people-pleasing game and finally enjoy the peaceful and purposeful life that you deserve.

A self-assessment quiz, memory verses, and additional resources are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Must Read

So many ahas!! Being on a boundaries journey for the past 3 1/2 years Karen helped me see more holes with action steps to continue on my growth!!! thank you ❤

Life changing

This book is life changing. My sin was called out, but I know I’m forgiven. I have life changes to make, priorities to revisit, and confessions to share. I will now consider myself a recovering people pleaser.

Glad I’m not the only one

So glad to confirm that I’m not the only one going through this. This helps me have a plan for my personal development and that’s really what I needed the most.

Life Changing

One of the most profound books I’ve experienced in my life. And it came to me when I needed it most. Thank you, Karen.

I will never be a DOORMAT again... thank you!

WOW... what a fantastic, eye opening, thoughtful, true, godly, and inspiring book that I will live by from this day forward. Thank you for opening my eyes to the fact that God and I must come before others requests most of the time in my life. I have felt like a DOORMAT for so long... but no more will I let others walk all over my kindness.