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In today's episode, The Good Daughter Gets Tired with Radha Dalal, we talk about the moment being “the good daughter” starts to cost us our voice, and how people pleasing can shift from kindness into self-abandonment. We explore how collectivist culture, late-diagnosed ADHD, and rejection sensitivity can make overgiving feel unavoidable, then we map practical ways to build self-trust and set kind boundaries that protect relationships.

• The fawn response as a nervous system survival skill rather than a character flaw
• Quiet signs people pleasing has crossed into self-abandonment
• Collectivist culture, family honor, and holding love with nuance
• Honoring mothers and grandmothers while choosing something different
• Late ADHD diagnosis in women and the relief and grief it can bring
• Rejection sensitivity and how it drives overcommitting
• Narrative therapy questions to challenge painful meaning-making
• Using body cues to reconnect with wants and needs
• Boundaries as fences with doorways and why communication matters
• Five percent more self-trust through small daily decisions
• Responding to family pushback without overexplaining or energy leaks

Show Guest:

Radha Dalal is a North Dallas-based LMFT Associate, yoga and meditation teacher, and host of The Pink Rose Pod. She supports women, including South Asian women, navigating ADHD, people-pleasing, burnout, cultural and family expectations, and boundaries. Her work helps women reconnect with their voice and build lives that feel more grounded and true to who they are.

You can connect with Radha at:

Links: Website · Instagram · Pink Rose Pod

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Supervised by Susan Gonzales, LMFT-S, LPC-S

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