Gemma Spike

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14,253 appearances 30 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

Gemma Spike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 30 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 8.

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The Psychology of your 20s · 460. The psychology of 'good girl' syndrome · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

C afraid of making mistakes? voice-verified

Uh, what am I up to? voice-verified

D highly ambitious and very focused on making other people happy. voice-verified

The thing is, voice-verified

These traits make you very likable. voice-verified

They make you really successful. voice-verified

And that is a good feeling. voice-verified

It is a good feeling. voice-verified

But it does have a cost. voice-verified

So let's talk about it. voice-verified

The thing is, this type of overresponsibility we're experiencing, to be completely honest with you, is just a fancy form of emotional suppression. voice-verified

There is this big iron gate that we've established to lock away our true feelings because our true feelings would often stand in opposition of what others want us to do, and that is bad. voice-verified

And that is emotional suppression. voice-verified

You may know this already, but long-term people pleasing is being increasingly linked to physical health conditions, increasingly linked to psychological conditions, increasingly linked to things like autoimmune diseases. voice-verified

A study from 2020 showed that autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect women in around 80% of cases, 8, 0. voice-verified

And they often emerge after periods of significant stress and self-silencing. voice-verified

A good example of this is traumatic pregnancies. voice-verified

or things where they've at times when they've experienced healthcare trauma. voice-verified

There's a health psychologist named Dr. voice-verified

Sula Winskison and she's looked into this more specifically and she's looked into the impact of suppressing our emotions upon our bodies more specifically. voice-verified

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