🥹 Are you a people pleaser?

Published 1 day ago • 1 min read

I was recently a guest on "The Ex-Good Girl Podcast" with host Sara Fisk, and she connected the dots in such a way that blew my mind.

I'm a born people pleaser. The helpful part of that trait means I'm good at supporting people. The unhelpful part means that I don't like conflict and tend to avoid ruffling any feathers.

When my kids came out as transgender, I had to work HARD to get over that unhelpful part. Every time I explained that Indigo and Mars had new names, I faced potential ruffled feathers with the person in front of me.

Affirming my kids meant that I had to be okay with potential conflict and not care how other people reacted when I told them about my kids.

And that conflict shot to a completely different level when I started to engage in public advocacy. Ruffled feathers is an understatement when it comes to Texas lawmakers targeting the transgender community.

If you're the kind of person who was taught to play by the rules because it's just the way things are done, you'll enjoy this episode of Sara's podcast.

Listen here!

Mandy Giles (she/her)
Founder and CEO
Parents of Trans Youth

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