Do you have a hard time saying no to others, no matter how outrageous their requests? If so, you might be a chronic people-pleaser.
Heralded by the Los Angeles Times as one of the nation\'s best-known Mindfulness teachers, she has been teaching since 1993 in a variety of settings, including hospitals, universities, corporations, non-profits, and schools..
Foreword writer Diana Winston is coauthor of Fully Present. org.
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She has been in private psychotherapy practice since 1990, and currently teaches Mindfulness in her private practice, The Jung Center, and Rice University.
She holds a master\'s degree in counseling psychology and is licensed as a professional counselor.
She was awarded this credential from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the renowned Center for Mindfulness.
About the Author: Micki Fine, MEd, LPC, is the founder of Mindful Living in Houston, TX and a certified Mindfulness teacher. org. livingmindfully.
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But if you\'re ready to "Just Say No," to others\' demands and start saying, "Yes" to your own needs, this book can help.
Change is hard--especially when it means going against years of social conditioning.
In addition, you will learn to put an end to the codependent behaviors that lie at the heart of being a people-pleaser.
In The Need to Please, a leading Mindfulness expert and psychotherapist provides compassionate, mindfulness-based techniques that will help chronic people-pleasers like you address and overcome your fears of failure, inappropriate self-sacrificing, loss of personal identity, and voracious Need of approval.
And while thinking of others is always commendable, there is a Fine line between sacrifice and senseless Approval seeking.
Unfortunately, because we live in a society that praises putting the needs of others before ourselves, it can be difficult to break this bad habit.
Do you have a hard time saying no to others, no matter how outrageous their requests? If so, you might be a chronic people-pleaser