Rewiring the Need to Please: Fawning, Relationships & Enoughness, with Nicole Vignola #92

Ever said, “No worries, it’s fine,” when it absolutely wasn’t fine?

Or maybe you’ve pushed down your needs and shape-shifted into whoever you thought you needed to be in a particular situation. That’s not kindness. That’s fawning—people-pleasing’s sneakier, brain-based cousin.

In this episode, neuroscientist and author of Rewire, Nicole Vignola, joins me for a juicy, no-fluff convo about why we fawn, what’s going on in the brain when we do it, and how to unhook from this exhausting survival pattern. Nicole shares real talk from her own relationships, where she caught herself over-functioning, then said the magic word: “Enough.”

Expect science, self-awareness, and some serious permission to want more.

Nicole creates a practical de-fawning practice to help you shift out of appeasement and into enoughness.

We kick things off with a little warm-up game I almost edited out… but didn’t. Come play enoughness ping pong with us and feel instantly more human.

Tune in now. Because “fine” is officially cancelled.

 

Links:

 

Nicole Vignola’s website and book.

Nicole on Instagram.

Mandy on Instagram.