Why You People-Please (And How It’s Affecting Your Anxiety)

Why Your Nervous System Is Addicted to Chaos

Why does calm sometimes feel uncomfortable… or even wrong? In this episode of Two Anxious Girls, we explore a powerful and often overlooked concept: how your nervous system can become conditioned to chaos and why stability can feel unfamiliar or even unsafe. We break down the clinical patterns behind this experience, including nervous system conditioning, attachment dynamics, and how early or repeated relational experiences shape what feels “normal” in adulthood. We also explore how healing actually works, not by eliminating your reactions, but by retraining your nervous system to tolerate and eventually trust calm, consistency, and emotional safety. Because healing doesn’t always feel exciting… sometimes it feels quiet. And that quiet is where safety begins. Twoanxiousgirlspodcast@gmail.com @TwoAnxiousGirlsPodcast ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Anger Beneath Anxiety: Why Anxiety Can Make You Irritable

Why do so many anxious women feel overwhelmed, but never angry? In this episode of Two Anxious Girls, we explore a powerful and often overlooked truth: sometimes anxiety isn’t just anxiety, it’s unexpressed anger. Many of us were never taught how to safely feel or express anger. Instead, we learned to stay agreeable, accommodating, and “easy to be around.” But when anger gets pushed down, it doesn’t disappear. It often shows up as overthinking, tension, people-pleasing, and emotional exhaustion. Twoanxiousgirlspodcast@gmail.com @TwoAnxiousGirlsPodcast ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Did I Say Too Much? The Anxiety After Socializing

Did you leave a social event feeling fine… only to spend the next 24 hours replaying every conversation in your head? In this episode of Two Anxious Girls, we are talking about the anxiety that shows up after socializing, the overthinking, the self-criticism, the “Did I say too much?” spiral, and the emotional exhaustion that can follow even positive interactions.  We explore: * Why anxious brains replay conversations * Post-event rumination and fear of judgment * Oversharing anxiety & rejection sensitivity * Social masking and emotional exhaustion * Introversion vs social anxiety * How to respond with more self-compassion instead of self-criticism If you have ever analyzed a conversation for hours afterward or worried you were “too much,” this episode may interest you! Twoanxiousgirlspodcast@gmail.com @twoanxiousgirlspodcast ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Why You People-Please (And How It’s Affecting Your Anxiety)

In this episode of Two Anxious Girls, we break down the truth about people-pleasing, and why it’s not a personality trait, but often a learned anxiety response rooted in hypervigilance, fear of conflict, and the need to stay emotionally safe. We also get real about something not often talked about: even therapists struggle with people-pleasing. In this episode, we discuss: * Why is people-pleasing often linked to anxiety and nervous system patterns * Hyper-awareness of others’ moods and emotional states * Fear of conflict and avoiding difficult conversations * The belief: “I don’t want to be too much.” * The emotional cost of self-abandonment * Why people-pleasing can lead to burnout, resentment, and overthinking * How to start setting boundaries without guilt twoanxiousgirlspodcast@gmail.com @twoanxiousgirlspodcast ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Things We Would Tell Our Younger Anxious Selves

In this episode, we are getting reflective and a little emotional as we talk about what we would say to our younger anxious selves. You know those moments… lying awake at night, overthinking everything you’ve ever said? Or those shower realizations that hit a little too hard? We explore what it felt like growing up with anxiety before we had the language for it, when everything felt like a catastrophe, and we quietly wondered if something was wrong with us. IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS: * The anxious thought spirals we had growing up (and… still have sometimes) * The belief that everyone else had life figured out except us * How anxiety can make everything feel urgent, overwhelming, and permanent * Learning to replace self-criticism with self-compassion * Understanding anxiety as a protective (but overactive) system TWOANXIOUSGIRLSPODCAST@GMAIL.COM @TWOANXIOUSGIRLSPODCAST ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.