When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable: How to Break the Pattern of People-Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life (audio)
Overview
If you long to be free from the overwhelming and exhausting prison of people-pleasing, When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable is the book for you. Bestselling author and recovering people-pleaser Karen Ehman offers stories and practical tools to help you quit the pleasing game and reclaim your peace and purpose for good. Bestselling author and recovering people-pleaser Karen Ehman offers stories and helpful tools from her own life to equip you with practical and biblical advice on how to break free from the pleasing game and reclaim your peace and purpose. Feeling overwhelmed, burnt-out, and pulled in too many directions by the needs of others? If you wish you had a little more freedom and margin in your daily schedule, this is the book for you. Author and speaker Karen Ehman knows firsthand how people-pleasing locks us in a prison, trapping us in unhealthy habits which distract us from our true selves and our God-given purpose. With honesty and practical wisdom, Ehman explores why we fall into people-pleasing behaviors and offers advice for how we can break out into the freedom God has called us to. Because the truth is we cannot fulfill our divine purpose if we're too busy living everyone else's. With vulnerable and humorous stories, biblical insight, and encouragement from someone who's been there, Ehman will help you: • Discover how to live out your priorities despite the opinions and expectations of others • Cultivate a strategy for knowing when to say yes and how to say no • Implement boundaries with the pushers, pouters, guilt-bombers and others who try to call the shots in your life • Learn to navigate the tension between following God and loving the people around you When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable is the key you need to quit the pleasing game, reclaim your life, and walk with God in peace and confidence. Bestselling author and recovering people-pleaser Karen Ehman offers stories and helpful tools from her own life to equip you with practical and biblical advice on how to break free from the pleasing game and reclaim your peace and purpose. Feeling overwhelmed, burnt-out, and pulled in too many directions by the needs of others? If you wish you had a little more freedom and margin in your daily schedule, this is the book for you. Author and speaker Karen Ehman knows firsthand how people-pleasing locks us in a prison, trapping us in unhealthy habits which distract us from our true selves and our God-given purpose. With honesty and practical wisdom, Ehman explores why we fall into people-pleasing behaviors and offers advice for how we can break out into the freedom God has called us to. Because the truth is we cannot fulfill our divine purpose if we're too busy living everyone else's.
- Title: When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable: How to Break the Pattern of People-Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life (audio)
- Author: Karen Ehman
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Audio
- Subjects: Religion › Christian Living--Women's Interests; Religion › Christian Literature see Christianity--Literature & the Arts; Self-Help › Personal Growth--Self-Esteem; Religion › Christian Living--Personal Growth; Self-Help › Personal Growth--Happiness
- ISBNs: 9780310347637, 0310347637, 025986347635, 9780310347583, 9781400231997, 9780310082767, 9780310347590, 9781713616498, 0310347580, 140023199X, 0310082765, 0310347599, 1713616491
- Resource ID: LLS:9780310347637
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T21:44:34Z
Karen Ehman is a Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker, a New York Times bestselling author, and a writer for Encouragement for Today,an online devotional that reaches over 4 million people daily. She has written seventeen books including Keep It Shut, Pressing Pause, and Keep Showing Up. Her passion is to help women to live their priorities as they reflect the gospel to a watching world. Married to her college sweetheart, Todd, the mother of three, and mom-in-law of two, she enjoys antique hunting, cheering for the Detroit Tigers, and feeding the many people who gather around her mid-century dining table for a taste of Mama Karen's cooking. Connect with her at www.karenehman.com.