Psychologies

Goodbye to the GOOD GIRL

ood girl conditioning is something that comes up a lot in various cultures. Societal pressure for women to act in a certain way isn’t yet a thing of the past, even though some would like to believe that it is. In many traditional households, women still fall into the role of quiet, abiding conformists. It is usually through the university of life that we discover that this type of conditioning is not conducive to creating clear and healthy boundaries in the modern world. The behaviours of good girl conditioning are internalised from a young age. It is a collective insistence upon women that they please other people, at the cost of their own wellbeing. It’s the moulding

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