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Let's Talk People-Pleasing! with Charlotte Bailey

Let's Talk People-Pleasing! with Charlotte Bailey

By: Charlotte Bailey
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Do you often wonder why you find it so hard to say 'no' to people?

  • Maybe you struggle to make time for yourself because you can't switch off — you feel like you should always be doing something.
  • Perhaps you've always felt too sensitive, too dramatic, too needy, too different... 'too much' — and yet never quite enough.
  • Maybe you've been self-sacrificing, suppressing, and masking for so long that it doesn't even feel like a mask anymore — you can’t remember who you really are beneath it.
  • Or you're a therapist or a woman with her own business, someone who cares deeply about what you do — but ‘good girl’ conditioning and spiralling overthinking hold you back from marketing yourself, because being seen doesn’t feel safe.


I'm Charlotte, an experienced psychotherapist, speaker and coach and mentor for women business owners who care deeply about what they do but struggle with overthinking and showing up without the cringe.


I'm so passionate about what I do because for decades, I lived as an anxious people-pleaser—constantly trying to keep others happy so I’d be accepted, always feeling like I was 'too much.'


Until one day, I realised I’d lost myself completely. Something had to change.

When it did, it brought a level of freedom I’d never felt before.

Getting to the root cause helped me let go of the need to please—and finally connect with the real me I’d been suppressing for so long.

With that came a new sense of self-trust, self-belief, and authentic confidence.

And I want you to know: you can find that too.


In the podcast I explore all things people-pleasing, trauma and good-girl conditioning; why you people-please, what the signs are, and the impact it can have on all aspects of your life.


I'll share personal and professional insights and you'll discover tips and strategies to help you stop people-pleasing and break free from what's holding you back, so you can move forward as your authentic self with confidence - in life and in business.

© 2025 Let's Talk People-Pleasing! with Charlotte Bailey Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The Christmas You Carry

    The Christmas You Carry
    Dec 24 2025

    A few spoken words for Mums at Christmas.

    Join me over on Instagram for regular updates, posts and relatable content and feel free to DM me any subjects you'd like me to cover: https://www.instagram.com/charlotte_bailey_therapies/

    Visit my website for more information, FREE resources and details on how to work with me https://www.charlotte-bailey.com/
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    3 mins
  • She Is Here: Remembering Who You Were Before You Were Taught to Be Less

    She Is Here: Remembering Who You Were Before You Were Taught to Be Less
    Dec 23 2025

    This opening episode of She Is Here™, marks the beginning of a new chapter - not a reinvention from Let's talk People-Pleasing , but a continuation of a remembering.

    People-pleasing was never your personality. It was a nervous-system response. A clever adaptation to environments where it felt safer to be less — less loud, less emotional, less honest, less visible.

    This new series introduces depth and poetry so you can feel what lives beneath people-pleasing: safety, identity, self-belonging, and the parts of you that learned when to soften, appease, or disappear to maintain connection.

    You’ll hear why understanding your past doesn’t always make your body feel safe in the present and why that doesn’t mean you’re failing at healing. Sometimes anxiety isn’t pathology. It’s information.

    She Is Here™ is not about forcing authenticity, pushing through fear, or becoming a “better” version of yourself. It’s about discernment. Choice. And learning to reconnect with the little girl inside you who was taught she had to be less to be accepted.

    This space is trauma-informed, nervous-system aware, and grounded in compassion - with psychology, lived experience, and spoken word woven throughout.

    You were never too much.
    You were taught to be less.

    She isn’t gone. She never was.

    She is here.

    Join me over on Instagram for regular updates, posts and relatable content and feel free to DM me any subjects you'd like me to cover: https://www.instagram.com/charlotte_bailey_therapies/

    Visit my website for more information, FREE resources and details on how to work with me https://www.charlotte-bailey.com/
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    13 mins
  • When Your Body Makes You Stop And listen To What It Has To Say - It Might Just Surprise You | Ep 53

    When Your Body Makes You Stop And listen To What It Has To Say - It Might Just Surprise You | Ep 53
    Oct 28 2025

    Have you ever told yourself you’re fine, only to find your body proving otherwise?
    In this short, honest episode, I reflect on how ignoring my own body’s signals turned a simple cough into a chest infection… and what it reminded me about pausing, listening, and letting the body lead - something a lot of us can struggle to do!

    I talk about my NHS and people-pleasing days when having time off made me feel guilty and anxious and like I was a failure.

    This episode invites you to consider how often you listen to what your body is saying and talks about the importance of tuning in to discover what it might have to say.

    A recent visualisation session with my own coach Audrey https://www.instagram.com/audrey_thesocialcoach recently opened me up to another level of connection with the purpose and meaning behind the work I do (something analytical, logical only past me would have rolled her eyes at 🤣)

    Join me over on Instagram for regular updates, posts and talks about all things people-pleasing and being visible and feel free to DM me any content ideas: https://www.instagram.com/charlotte_bailey_therapies/

    Visit my website for more information, resources and details on how to work with me https://www.charlottebaileytherapies.com/

    Take the quiz! What's Your People-Pleaser Personality? and discover my 6 step method to unlocking Clarity, Change and Freedom so you can say yes to the real you - without anxiety and guilt.

    Get your FREE Video Visibility Toolkit - discover how to go from cringe to confidence on video
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    19 mins
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