“Unlocking the Secrets of Selflessness: How ‘Happy to Help’ Challenges the True Cost of Being a People Pleaser”
All of Miller’s essays are sprinkled with humor, vulnerability, and research, proving that she can not only tell good stories, but she gleans meaning from them. Her insights are refreshing and relatable. The essays’ endings wrap up neatly, like gifts containing sensical conclusions peppered with new ideas or rationalizations. If readers can’t identify with some of Miller’s experiences, they can certainly imagine or gain awareness. But one universal truth can be taken away from this collection, whether a people pleaser or not. And that’s the ability to say, “I would prefer not to.” Miller concludes that the basis behind this collection is not how to do more, or to do less, or to even not care; rather, “…this book does offer recognition that we are, most of us, managing quite a lot, and doing just fine.”
