Robert J. StrockFounder, Awareness That Heals · Awareness That Heals

Awareness That Heals - Do You Please Others While Ignoring Your Own Needs?

23 Jul 2025

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A short 2025 YouTube monologue prompting listeners to examine whether they habitually please others while neglecting their own needs. The speaker uses rhetorical questions and examples (e.g., gym membership metaphor) to surface shame, fear, and beliefs that block intimacy, and invites the viewer to identify and feel the courage to express their deepest unmet needs (being heard, communication, independence, kindness).

Do you have a tendency to please others and not asking what's most important for you? It's like buying a gym membership and not showing up. You're cheating yourself. Can you see the shame, fear, or the belief that no one else can give as much as you do, holding you back from reaching where you have a real chance to find love and intimacy. Does it make sense to go for your deepest needs and realize the only way to lose is to run away? Take a look now at the need that you least express that is most important to you. It could be being heard. Communication, Independence, Kindness. Ask yourself what needs are most important to express and with who? As you ask this question, feel how strong your desire is and feel your own courage. Sa.