Are You Mad at Me?

• By Meg Josephson• Release Date: August 5, 2025• ISBN: 9781668082461• 304 Pages• Hardcover Are you...- Constantly worried about what people think of you, if they like you, if they’re mad at you?- Anxious, a perfectionist, or an overachiever?- Always overextending yourself (and then resentful)?- Someone who avoids conflict at all costs?- Fearful of getting into trouble or being seen as “bad”?- Silencing your needs for the comfort and happiness of everyone else?- Prone to overexplain or over apologize?- Eternally obsessing over why someone texted with a period instead of an exclamation point?It’s time to stop surviving and start thriving. Meg Josephson, MSW, will tell you how. In Are You Mad at Me?, Josephson explodes the idea that people-pleasing is a personality trait. Instead, she illuminates how it’s actually a common trauma response (also known as “fawning”): an instinct often learned in childhood to become more appealing to a perceived threat in order to feel safe. Yet many people