Relief for Approval — When Being Needed Felt Like Being Loved
The first time Lori remembers feeling relief because someone was pleased with her… she was four years old, sitting between her parents during a late-night argument, trying to make peace happen with tiny hands and a terrified nervous system.
In this episode of ReMothered, Lori explores the roots of people pleasing, emotional hypervigilance, and the quiet addiction to approval that so many survivors of enmeshment and emotional instability carry into adulthood.
This is an episode about:
• learning to read rooms before reading books
• becoming “easy” in order to feel safe
• the hidden grief beneath being the fixer
• performing love instead of receiving it
• and what happens when survival starts erasing the self
Raw, intimate, and deeply reflective, this episode traces the moment relief became confused with love — and the lifelong cost of that bargain.
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Until next time… take gentle care of yourself.
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