Inoculate Yourself Against the StepMom Flu!
Integrity. Commitment to Excellence. Stubbornly Optimistic!
People pleasers please raise your hands. Ok…I see…one, two, ten, seventeen, fifty, the whole room? Sounds about right. Sister stepmoms, my name is Peggy and I’m a recovering people pleaser.
What exactly is a people pleaser? What do they look like? How do they behave? Raise your hand if you’ve ever tried to morph yourself into someone your husband, boss, parents, siblings, children (yes, children), or anyone else in your life wanted you to be? Expected you to be?
We get trapped inside this bizarre mind loop…and it borders on obsessive thinking…before we know it, we’re rationalizing and justifying our behavior because we MUST be seen as nice…really nice.
To inoculate yourself against this type of behavior justification for what you think, say and do, read my article in this month’s issue of the best and only online magazine for stepmoms, The StepMom Magazine! Plus, you’ll get to read articles by Wednesday Martin, Jacquelyn Fletcher, Lara Badain, La Belle Mere (Becky Lippett), Katherine Maguid and MORE!!
I’m slowly starting to recover from a bout of “the disease to please” that lasted over 25 years. And you’re a big part of the cure! – G
Dearest Georgina,
Thank you. It’s comments like yours that tell me that I’m on the right track with the message I want to get out to women everywhere…(and not just stepmoms!)
xxoo
Peggy