Insight: Is People-Pleasing Triggering Your Migraines?

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Always putting others first? Learn how people-pleasing drains your energy, weakens boundaries, and triggers migraines.

Migraine Heroes Episode 76 examines people-pleasing as a migraine trigger, illustrated with a woman facepalming in stress.

Episode Description

Always putting others first… but feeling depleted, in pain, and on edge? That’s not just stress—it may be your body calling for boundaries.

The Migraine Heroes Podcast is your space to heal beyond medications and surface-level advice. Hosted by Diane Ducarme, who’s helped over 500 women decode their migraines using both neuroscience and Traditional Chinese Medicine, this show unpacks the deeper emotional and physiological layers of chronic pain.

In this episode, we explore the quiet—but powerful—link between people-pleasing and migraines.

You’ll:

● Learn how chronic self-silencing drains your nervous system and increases pain sensitivity

● Understand the neuroscience behind fawning and why it’s more than just a personality trait

● Discover Eastern insights on how abandoning yourself creates disharmony—and how to return to your center

● Get practical, body-based tools to protect your energy and start healing gently

This episode is for the kind-hearted souls who always show up for others—but are ready to show up for themselves, too.

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Originally published July 2025

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