People Pleaser Life Coach Certification (Self-Care)

Explore the origins of people pleasing via the martyr model, faux dad paradigm, and lauding cycles; discover balancing giving and receiving and affirming worthiness.

Explore the faux dad paradigm and how early parentification shapes male clients into people-pleasing givers, seeking reciprocity in relationships and knowing when coaching should refer to therapy.

Identify and break the lauding cycle driven by external rewards, explore achievement versus fulfillment, and learn coaching techniques to hold space, ask powerful questions, and validate internal needs.

Explore how people pleasing habits debilitate emotional, relational, and mental well-being, shaping decisions and paths. Learn to merit priority by embracing healthy selfishness that puts your needs and purpose first.

Explore how people pleasing relates to codependency, identify five codependent patterns—denial, low self-esteem, compliance, control, avoidance—and use Code.org to inform coaching scope and therapist referrals.

Codependency is an excessive emotional dependence on another person, often rooted in childhood, with caretaking, control, and low self-esteem. Therapy and support groups help set boundaries and reclaim well-being.

Discover the pleasing scale, a self-assessment that reveals five types of people-pleasing styles, including dysregulated and dissociative, and how these patterns relate to codependent patterns and business behavior.

Explore hyper transactional, hyper assistive, and delimited people-pleasing patterns such as carrot chasing, revealing overgiving, proving for the choosing, and strategies to reclaim boundaries and energy.

Explore the stages of change, from pre contemplative to maintenance, and how they align with recovery and people-pleasing dynamics in addiction narratives.

Stages of change shows that people pleasing recovery mirrors addiction, with no former pleasers; treat relapse as part of the recovery journey, and keep moving forward after missteps.

Apply the transtheoretical model of change to people pleasing, moving through precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance to sustain healthier boundaries and self-care.

Explore coping mechanisms for people pleasing recovery, hold space with gentle accountability, and guide clients through boundaries, saying no, and steadily applying new behaviors.

Discover the b sass framework for recovering people pleasers—boundaries, self-awareness, support, and accountability—using a boundary activation sequence and coaching that emphasizes non-judgmental support, journal prompts, and affirmations.

Develop agency by shifting from external validation to internal validation. Learn to guide clients from people-pleasing decisions toward authentic fulfillment.

This lecture reframes self-care as a lifestyle, not an event, and outlines three uncommon acts of self-care plus eight elements like boundaries and self-worth.

Identify triggers that drive people-pleasing behavior in unfamiliar situations. Use a recovery journal to trace triggers, distinguish live events from memories, and decide when to refer to therapy.

Distinguish achievement from fulfillment and examine how external validation and internal validation shape motivation. Learn to align values and purpose as a coach to help clients balance achievement with fulfillment.

Explore countertransference and hold a super safe space by asking questions, not telling. Maintain boundaries, stay unbiased, and practice peer support for recovering people pleasers.

Learn to avoid countertransference in coaching by maintaining a mutual safe space, using a coaching checklist, and recognizing when to refer to authorities for harm or abuse.

Maintain professional boundaries and establish mutual safe space to prevent countertransference. Discern suitable clients through intake and scheduling, and uphold self-care and balanced pricing.

Do it worthy, not wounded, guides you to heal binding beliefs from past wounds, align head, heart, and hands, and attract your first worthy client with empowered boundaries.

Learn to assert yourself, speak your mind, and set boundaries without guilt while prioritizing your own needs, even when caring for others and navigating social situations.

Coaches use appreciative inquiry to identify client strengths and successes, ask strength-based questions, listen actively, and translate insights into actions that build on existing abilities to achieve goals.

Practice active listening by giving your client full attention, removing distractions, maintaining eye contact, using verbal and nonverbal cues, asking open-ended questions, and summarizing to build rapport for effective coaching.

Reflect clients' words and emotions to build rapport and trust, showing empathy and understanding. Use mirroring phrases like 'it sounds like you're feeling frustrated' to validate feelings and deepen coaching.

Develop and deliver a robust recovery program through group, private, or hybrid coaching using eight-week models, confidentiality agreements, and lead magnets to grow your client funnel.

Shift from affordability to accessibility by aligning pricing with your ideal clients and crafting a value proposition that offers accessible programs over pricey, customized 1-to-1 coaching.

Identify signals that you are people pleasing again, including fear of abandonment and seeking love or approval. Evaluate reciprocity and balance in relationships to stop people pleasing and empower yourself.

Explore the need to be needed, uncovering martyr tendencies, worthiness beliefs, and inner work to stop people-pleasing and build self-worth and healthy relationships.

Learn to say no with confidence, set boundaries, and reclaim worth from being rather than doing, using clear no as a full sentence and practical self-care strategies.

Explore practical conflict resolution for beginners by choosing no enemies and no breaks, setting pre-fight guidelines, and practicing forgiveness to grow together in healthy relationships.

Celebrate your achievement as you finish this course and move toward becoming a certified people pleasing life coach, and review the next steps, resources, tools, tips, and lessons.