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The Pleaser
The Pleaser Abandoning Yourself to Keep the Peace Meet the Pleaser This dragon is always reading the room. They notice shifts in people’s moods. They anticipate needs before they are spoken. They adapt, accommodate, and adjust themselves to keep the peace. They smooth things over. They avoid conflict. They make themselves easy to love.…
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It Wasn’t the Noise That Bothered Me
This morning, a bird started knocking on my door. Not metaphorically. Literally. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. So of course I looked. Because… what? And for a second, I had that thought:“Opportunity is knocking.” Cute, right? Except it wasn’t. I opened the door to see what it was doing, and it turns out—it was…