A master class on boundaries and people-pleasing with Amy Smith
“You are responsible for your intention, not your reception.”
- Amy Smith
Amy Smith (aka “The Joy Junkie”) blew my mind a few times in this conversation. She teaches us that an all too common (but less well known) alternative to fight, flight or freeze is to FAWN—aka people-please. And then she educates us on how to stand up for ourselves with confidence, integrity and compassion as we learn to establish and maintain boundaries and kick our people-pleasing tendencies. Amy is super sparkly, grounded and wise. As a certified and credentialed confidence coach and a 1/3 projector, she is really truly here to guide us towards radical self-love, self confidence and speaking our truth (or as the title of her eworkbook says, “Stand up for yourself without being a dick.”)
“What do we do? We fight, we flee, we freeze… or we fawn. It is the iteration of fawning that is basically making friends with the aggressor. That’s people pleasing—it’s a way in which we stay safe.”
- Amy Smith
“For most of us, we tell the wrong people that we’re pissed.”
- Amy Smith
“When you let people overstep you, silence you… over and over again. That is a subconscious message that your voice doesn’t matter.”
- Amy Smith
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