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You Were Not Born This Quiet

You Were Not Born This Quiet

Datar, Nikita

Paperback

AbuseMental HealthSelf-Help

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ISBN13: 9798235315433
Publisher: Nikita Datar
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

You were the easy one. The agreeable one. The one who never seemed to need much. This book is about what that cost you.Somewhere very early, you learned that being easy kept you safe. That needing less made you lovable. That the version of you who stayed small, stayed pleasant, and never asked for too much was the version allowed to stay.So you became her.And you have been her for so long that you no longer remember who you were before the editing began.This is not another book about setting boundaries. It does not hand you scripts or a fourteen-day plan. It does something harder and rarer: it shows you, with precision, how the pattern was built - written into your nervous system, your body, your relationships, your work, and your sense of self - and what the slow, real way back actually looks like.Inside, you will understand: Why people-pleasing is not a personality trait but a survival response your body learned before you had words for itHow self-abandonment and the fawning response are wired into the nervous system, and what the latest research reveals about reversing themWhy the exhaustion you cannot explain, the resentment that arrives quietly, and the sense of not quite being there are all part of the same woundWhat it costs in your desire, your anger, your friendships, your ambition, and your body - and how the cost stays hidden for decadesWhat healing honestly feels like, including the part no one tells you: that at first it feels like lossDrawing on developmental neuroscience, attachment research, and the wisdom traditions, You Were Not Born This Quiet is a mirror, not a manual. It is for the woman who has been called low-maintenance and felt something in her quietly disappear. For everyone who learned to need less and is ready, finally, to find out what was underneath.You were not born this quiet. You were trained into it. And what was trained can be unlearned.From the bestselling author of The Anatomy of the Father Wound and You Are the Love You Seek

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