Sometimes problems arise in the process of expressing how we feel, but it is always worth it to do the work. ~ Madisyn Taylor, DailyOM For me and for many people, open and honest communication is difficult, if not impossible. However, if we can find a strategy to make it more comfortable for ourselves and […]
Month: August 2019
NARCISSISM: The Tendency & Ways to Manage It – Part 8 in the Series RELATIONSHIPS MATTER
In Part 6 of the RELATIONSHIPS MATTER blog series, I focused the flashlight on the fact that opposites can attract in self-destructive ways. People who have narcissistic tendencies and those who tend to be people pleasers are easily drawn to one another, often with unintended and disastrous consequences. In the last blog, I wrote specifically […]
The Problem AND the Antidote for “People Pleasing” – RELATIONSHIPS MATTER, Part 7
In the last blog, Opposites Attract – The Narcissist and The People-Pleaser (Part 6 in the Series RELATIONSHIP MATTERS), I warned about the challenges and potential disaster when a narcissist and a people pleaser are together in a close relationship. I promised that I would give some “real life” examples of being a people pleaser […]