# @itslouwoods on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOsYAhajhuU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61747694-itslouwoods-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/a4a6be5290.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-09-17T06:30:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Lou Woods (@itslouwoods) — https://gondola.cc/itslouwoods

## Caption

Are you a recovering people pleaser? 🙋🏼‍♀️❤️

You’re in good company 🫶🏼

For years, I said yes to my own detriment and used to spiral over what I perceived as letting people down. Most of the time… it wasn’t even a big deal, but it felt (and still does sometimes) disproportionately huge. 😰

Through therapy I learned people pleasing is a form of self-disrespect. That hit hard.
Because every time I ignored my own needs to keep someone else comfortable, I was teaching myself that I didn’t matter. 

People with ADHD are also more likely to people-please because of rejection sensitivity and the need for external validation. For many of us it turns into self-abandonment more than kindness. 💚

Learning awareness of it is the starting point. 

Learning to say no is learning to respect yourself. ❤️

✨ Tag a friend who needs to hear this ✨

Can you relate? Let me know in the comments 👋🏻❤️

#ADHDfriendly #ADHDlife #ADHDcommunity #ADHDawareness 
#peoplepleasing #recoveringpeoplepleaser #selfrespect #selfabandonment #healingjourney #growthmindset #growthcontent #mindfulness

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## Tags

adhdfriendly, selfrespect, selfabandonment, adhdawareness, adhdcommunity, growthmindset, growthcontent, healingjourney, recoveringpeoplepleaser, mindfulness, adhdlife, peoplepleasing

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