Gemma Spike
speaker
14,836 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Gemma Spike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And only feeling valuable when you meet other people's expectations.
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Women who scored highly on this questionnaire also tended to be.
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A perfectionist, B self sacrificing, and
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C afraid of making mistakes?
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Uh, what am I up to?
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D highly ambitious and very focused on making other people happy.
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The thing is,
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These traits make you very likable.
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They make you really successful.
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And that is a good feeling.
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It is a good feeling.
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But it does have a cost.
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So let's talk about it.
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The thing is, this type of overresponsibility we're experiencing, to be completely honest with you, is just a fancy form of emotional suppression.
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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.
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And that is emotional suppression.
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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.
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A study from 2020 showed that autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect women in around 80% of cases, 8, 0.
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And they often emerge after periods of significant stress and self-silencing.
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A good example of this is traumatic pregnancies.
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