This is the episode the whole people pleasing cluster has been building toward. Because after everything — understanding where it came from, seeing what it costs, learning to disappoint people, reclaiming your reactions — it all comes down to this. Choosing yourself is not selfish. It is the most necessary, most courageous, most life-giving thing a people pleaser can do. And it's available to you right now.
If you've spent your whole life putting yourself last and calling it virtue, this one is going to reframe everything.
