When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable With Karen Ehman

She Speaks Life - Women's Stories of Faith, Christian Women, Scripture Journaling, Christian Living

English - June 28, 2024 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
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Let's talk about the trap of people pleasing!
Karen Ehman, a New York Times bestselling author and recovering people pleaser, discusses her book "When Making Others Happy is Making You Miserable." In today's world, there's a constant pressure to do everything for everyone, which can lead to exhaustion and depletion—far from how God intended us to live. Karen shares insights on setting healthy boundaries, distinguishing between people-pleasing and God-pleasing, and how to say no while maintaining friendships.

Karen Ehman is a New York Times bestselling author, a Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker and a contributing writer for Encouragement for Today online devotions and a teacher in the First 5 Bible study app which has over 2 million daily users. She has written 19 books and Bible studies including Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All and the 2020 ECPA devotional book of the year Settle My Soul: 100 Quiet Moments to Meet with Jesus. She is a Cum Laude graduate of Spring Arbor University with a major in Social Science. Karen has been featured on TODAY Parenting, Redbook.com, Foxnews.com, Crosswalk.com, YouVersion.com, and is a monthly columnist for HomeLife Magazine. Her passion is to help women live their priorities as they reflect the gospel to a watching world.

https://karenehman.com/

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