People-pleasing isn’t a personality flaw — it’s a survival strategy shaped by trauma. This blog explores why complex trauma and people-pleasing are connected, and provides gentle, trauma-informed challenges that help people-pleasers reconnect with their authentic selves, sit with discomfort, and build safety within their own bodies again.

This blog explores how to tell the difference between your true self and your trauma self. Learn how survival strategies form, what they feel like in your body, and how somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your authentic self through nervous system healing.