Gemma Spike

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14,836 appearances 31 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

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

And we see it in our mothers, we see it in our grandmothers, we see it in how women are expected to act at work and in relationships. voice-verified

And that is to always forgive and always to step aside and to be nice and to be demure. voice-verified

And to be mindful? voice-verified

But this has a severe cost and voice-verified

It presents a very impossible tightrope for women, which is either you make everyone else happy by never asking questions or never demanding anything, voice-verified

Or you allow yourself to be happy, and maybe in the process you upset some people, or you're labeled a bitch, like or you voice-verified

receive consequences for that. voice-verified

That is the tightrope. voice-verified

And I think when we're walking that tightrope, Good Girl Syndrome can slowly and secretly voice-verified

Really erode our lives and erode our sense of self-confidence and self-worth. voice-verified

So I want to interrogate the psychological origins, the signs you may have developed, this complex, this syndrome, why it often feels useful. voice-verified

And probably most importantly for an episode like this, what does the research say about unlearning these behaviors, especially after years and years? voice-verified

of feeling like this is keeping you safe, this is keeping you loved, and this is part of who you are. voice-verified

So it's a big episode. voice-verified

I hope you enjoy it. voice-verified

Let's get into it. voice-verified

Good girl syndrome is one of those funny things where you never really notice it or you never really have a term for it. voice-verified

You just kind of think that it's like this natural thing that women do and the way they are. voice-verified

And then you have a word for it. voice-verified

You learn the the term and the concept, and it's literally everywhere. voice-verified

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