The Disease to Please by Harriet Braiker

The Disease to Please Harriet Braiker ebook
Page: 288
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
ISBN: 9780071385640
Format: pdf

Braiker's first book (that I read) was The Type E Woman (for the woman who tries to be everything to everyone). You see, like many dogs, Pip has a mean case of the disease to please. This wasn't my break from the most intense year of motherhood ever. The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome by Harriet B. For every disease there is its evil twin. As in life, I took on too much. In actuality, the “disease to please” is a compulsive — even addictive — behavior pattern in which you feel controlled by your need to please others, and addicted to their approval. I am not sure if this is a largely talked about thing, but I came across a leaflet that my wife had been given about women in leadership and the 7 deadly sins! Do you often defer to the wishes, desires, and wants of family and friends? Does your need to please and your lack of self-worth make it difficult to state what you need and what you want? Poor Pip is busy trying to be all things to all people – good dog, smart dog, hot dog. Since then, it has been my mission to have my Mother's' Day. Let's just say I found a few tidbits in there for myself and for others I knew. The twin of “the disease to please” is named Barack Obama. If women are “programmed” to do anything, it's to please others and be a “good girl.” And by “good” it is assumed you will: Be compliant and not complain about what is expected of you, which is more than any.