Breaking Free from the ‘Good Girl Syndrome’

The ‘good girl syndrome’ is an ingrained pattern of behaviour that arises in childhood. It leads adult woman to be overly agreeable through the suppression of their own needs at the expense of themselves. It is a combination of people pleasing, codependency and sometimes perfectionism. At its extreme it leads to loss of self, burnout and severe depression.
 
The biggest step to recovery is…