{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6628e99233dbf40012b4f6c5/6af5dc34753953bebbbcbb40?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why You Say “I’m Fine” When You’re Not: The Hidden Rules That Keep Women From Asking for Help","description":"<p>Get our latest book here: SCAPEGOATED <a href=\"https://link.amazon/B0fCw1QPX\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://link.amazon/B0fCw1QPX</a></p><p><br></p><p>You’re exhausted. Someone offers to help. And before you’ve even thought about it, the words are already out: “I’m fine. I’ve got it.”</p><p>Where did that come from?</p><p>It wasn’t a choice you made. It’s a script, one that’s been handed to women for generations. It says needing support is a weakness, asking makes you a burden, and a capable woman handles everything on her own. It’s so familiar most of us never notice we’re following it.</p><p>In this episode of the Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Podcast, we pull that script into the light. We look at where it comes from, who it serves, and why breaking it can feel almost impossible, even when you know better.</p><p>Inside this episode:</p><ul><li>Why girls and boys often learn very different lessons about asking for help</li><li>What happens to the words people use when a woman states her needs out loud (and why “clear” so quickly becomes “demanding”)</li><li>The quiet split so many women live with: knowing it’s okay to ask, and still feeling ashamed to do it</li></ul><p>Think about the last time you needed help and didn’t say a word. Was it really because you didn’t need it? Or because some part of you had already decided that asking would cost too much?</p><p>That guilt you feel isn’t proof that something is wrong with you. It’s the conditioning doing exactly what it was built to do.</p><p>This conversation won’t hand you a checklist. It will show you the rules you’ve been living by, maybe for your whole life. And once you see them, it gets a lot harder to keep calling them your personality.</p><p>Press play and find out what you’ve been carrying alone, and why.</p><p>Get our latest book here: SCAPEGOATED <a href=\"https://link.amazon/B0fCw1QPX\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://link.amazon/B0fCw1QPX</a></p>","author_name":"Lynn Nichols"}