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Podcast: Let's Keep Talking with Braxton Gilbert
Episode: How People Pleasing Trains Your Nervous System (feat Mom)
Description: What if keeping everyone happy has been teaching your body a risky lesson: my safety depends on your approval? We dive into people pleasing not as a character flaw, but as an adaptive relationship strategy that once kept us connected and now keeps us stuck. With stories that range from being the “teacher’s pet” to a drained family dinner after a long day at Universal, we draw a clear line between clean compromise and compliance that breeds resentment.Together we unpack how approval-seeking gets wired into the nervous system, why disappointment often feels like danger, and how to...