This week’s QUOTE FOR STRESS
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” Winston Churchill
The definition of ‘appease’ is to pacify or placate someone by acceding to their demands.
Appeasing others is extremely stressful as you’re constantly vigilante to the other person’s spoken and unspoken demands and desires. The stress involved will get you in the end. Depression is caused by stress so if you carry on appeasing the crocodile (of depression), it will gobble you up!
Appeasing others or people pleasing is usually an attempt to find acceptance and love. Each time you fall into the trap of appeasing others, visualize yourself feeding a crocodile!
Don’t mistake a crocodile’s immobility for inactivity, because that is how it gets its meals.
For more on the effects of being an appeaser click here.