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“Advocate for yourself” is common advice. Ask questions. Set boundaries. Tell people what you need. Speak up when something is wrong. On the surface, this seems straightforward. In practice, self-advocacy can be much more complicated, particularly for women who have spent significant periods of their lives learning…
Caroline Fithen, MA··6 min read
There was a long time when I knew something wasn’t right in my relationship without fully understanding what I was experiencing. I knew I didn’t want to be screamed at. I knew being called names wasn’t okay. I knew I shouldn’t be mocked or ridiculed because I didn’t know something, didn’t hear something correctly, or…
Caroline Fithen, MA··8 min read
I want to talk about people-pleasing, but not in the way it usually gets talked about. I'm tired of the version that frames it as a personality quirk, a boundary problem, or a self-esteem issue we just need to do the work on. That framing skips over the most important thing, which is that people-pleasing is a survival…
Wholehearted Counseling LLC··4 min read
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