Love Your Life: Love Your Life: Midlife Reinvention, Emotional Regulation, & Parenting
Jun 24, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
For the woman who feels responsible for everyone and everything: This episode will help so much!!! Do you ever look at other women relaxing on a porch, laughing with their family, or their…
Susie PettitHost
Us Gen Xers were trained to be people pleasers, trained to be self-reliant, pull up the bootstraps, take care of it and everything type of people.

at noticing what needs to be done, really good at reading the room, keeping the peace, anticipating problems before they happen, and oh my goodness, very, very good about not asking for help, right? God forbid we were called selfish or showed that we need help in any ways.

It's just so weak, right? Is this resonating for any of you? This is like totally my nervous system.

And yet, what are we finding out now? that this feeling like we need to constantly be thinking of what everyone else is doing or feeling is really not good for us.

Like the other shoe might drop, so I better keep scanning and seeing what's going on.

Totally common for how a lot of us were raised, and yet what does that feel like? Not great.

Us Gen Xers were trained to be people pleasers, trained to be self-reliant, pull up the bootstraps, take care of it and everything type of people.

at noticing what needs to be done, really good at reading the room, keeping the peace, anticipating problems before they happen, and oh my goodness, very, very good about not asking for help, right? God forbid we were called selfish or showed that we need help in any ways.

It's just so weak, right? Is this resonating for any of you? This is like totally my nervous system.

And yet, what are we finding out now? that this feeling like we need to constantly be thinking of what everyone else is doing or feeling is really not good for us.

Like the other shoe might drop, so I better keep scanning and seeing what's going on.

Totally common for how a lot of us were raised, and yet what does that feel like? Not great.
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