How People Pleasing Keeps the Patriarchy Running (And How to Stop)

People pleasing feels like a personality trait. The over-explaining. The softening. Carrying everyone’s worries like it’s your job. But what if it’s also the thing keeping the patriarchy running? That’s the idea clairvoyant and energy worker Christine Agro brings to this conversation. She has spent almost thirty years helping people clear old patterns, and about a year ago she started seeing a deeper one underneath all the people pleasing. She calls it patriarchal encodement: the progra...