How to say no to damaging, people-pleasing tendencies
It took ABC journalist Grace Jennings-Edquist being admitted to hospital with her four-month-old baby before she realised that her perfectionist, people-pleasing tendencies were making her ill. Her light bulb moment prompted her to write The Yes Woman, a book about why women are more likely to shoulder more than they should and how to say no when the impact of yes becomes too much.
