Look out for number one! Selfish self-help books are booming but will they improve your life?
Self-help trends promote radical self-prioritization, encouraging people to reject people-pleasing and therapeutic fawning to reclaim personal thoughts, needs, and agency.
Why people-pleasing happens and how to stop doing it
People-pleasing is a trauma-driven fawning response that causes exhaustion and loss of self; healing requires focusing less on others to rediscover personal needs and identity.