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How authenticity threatens relationships built on false self-presentation

I have been people-pleasing my whole life and now that I am trying to be authentic everyone says I have changed and they do not like it

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Dismantling people-pleasing parts reveals that some relationships were dependent on self-abandonment rather than genuine connection.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parts work and Internal Family Systems?”

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