Coaching practices for How Do I Stop Being a People Pleaser All My Life and Am I Being Selfish by Putting Myself First

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• I bend over backwards to be fair to everyone else and then quietly leave myself out of the equation entirely
• I run myself into the ground taking care of everyone else and I’m always the last person on my own list
• I give until there’s nothing left of me and call it being a good person, and lately I just feel resentful and empty
• I keep saying yes to things that drain me because saying no feels selfish or mean
• I’ll bend over backwards for everyone else, but the idea of being that gentle with myself feels selfish

Practices that may help

1. Be Fair: include yourself in the fairness you extend to others
   Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
   FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships
2. Fierce provision: identify and meet your own needs
   Ask yourself what you need right now and take action to supply it — without waiting to be asked.
   Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical
3. Be otherish, not selfless
   Help others in ways that also serve your own goals and interests.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
4. Fierce protection: say "no" from care, not fear
   Defend your time, body, and dignity as you would defend a beloved child — because you are equally worth defending.
   Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical
5. Include acts of kindness toward yourself
   The kindness architecture that builds well-being includes self-directed kindness — not just other-directed.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
6. Cultivate authenticity
   Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and show up as who you actually are.
   The Gifts of Imperfection, Made Practical
7. The practice of self-assertiveness
   Honor your wants, needs, and values by expressing them in the world — appropriately and openly.
   The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Made Practical
8. Accommodate relationships — but not at the cost of important interests
   Accommodating is appropriate when you were wrong, the issue is trivial, or preserving the relationship outweighs your stake in the outcome.
   The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)
9. Accommodating (cooperative, unassertive)
   Yield to the other’s needs when the issue matters far more to them than to you.
   The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles
10. Apologies: stop apologizing for existing, wanting, or having limits
    Reserve apologies for actual harm caused — not for having needs, feelings, or opinions.
    FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships

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