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Every People Please Needs to Hear This!

Lewis Howes

The speaker argues that people pleasers and over-givers have untapped energy rooted in stored anger and resentment that they repress rather than express. By embracing the discomfort of setting boundaries and allowing others to feel tension, people pleasers can become more free and authentic.

Summary

The transcript discusses a fundamental pattern in people pleasers and chronic over-givers: they possess significant internal energy that remains untapped because it is suppressed beneath the surface. The speaker identifies the source of this suppression as stored anger and resentment that people pleasers are afraid to express directly to others. Instead of communicating their true feelings and boundaries, people pleasers internalize this anger, which manifests as self-criticism when they realize they said yes to something they actually wanted to refuse. The speaker explains that a repressed part of the self accumulates with anger and resentment underneath the surface. The key to transformation, according to the speaker, is to embrace rather than avoid the very thing that causes discomfort. The speaker then addresses a critical misconception: when people pleasers finally express themselves authentically, others may feel tension in response. The speaker clarifies that this tension felt by other people is not the responsibility of the people pleaser to manage or fix. However, the speaker acknowledges that people pleasers will also experience tension within their own bodies when they first begin allowing others to feel uncomfortable. The solution offered is to sit with this internal tension rather than react to it, as this is the pathway to greater freedom.

Key Insights

  • People pleasers and over-givers have untapped energy inside them that remains inaccessible until they make contact with their stored anger and resentment
  • When people pleasers fear expressing anger toward others, that anger becomes internalized and transforms into self-directed criticism for not being honest about their own needs
  • The pathway to freedom for people pleasers involves embracing the very thing they normally avoid—in this case, authentic self-expression that might create tension
  • The tension that other people feel when a people pleaser finally sets a boundary is not the people pleaser's responsibility to manage or fix
  • People pleasers will experience tension within their own bodies when they first start allowing others to feel discomfort, and the practice is to sit with rather than escape from this internal tension

Topics

People pleasing and chronic over-giving behaviorRepressed anger and resentmentBoundary setting and authentic self-expressionManaging discomfort and tensionPersonal freedom and transformation

Transcript

[0:00] Every person you meet that's a people [music] pleaser or that has that kind of or an over giver, there's an certain untapped energy inside of them that if they were to tap [music] into would completely transform their lives. >> What is that? >> That energy is being in contact with the stored [music] anger and resentment underneath the surface. Normally, what happens is that anger that you're afraid to share towards other people by expressing yourself [music] becomes internalized. So, then you beat yourself up because you said yes when [0:30] [music] you really meant no. So, there's this this part of us that gets repressed underneath the surface with anger, and the key is actually [music]…

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