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The Habit of Making Yourself Small
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Lisa Reidsema

The Habit of Making Yourself Small

Lisa Reidsema

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English
Contemporary Curriculum Press
01 April 2026
Violence in society; Sociology: family & relationships; Social, group or collective psychology; Coping with personal problems; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem
Making yourself small is often not a choice. It is a survival strategy learned in environments where taking up room was unsafe or unwelcome. Over time it becomes so automatic that it stops feeling like a pattern and starts feeling like a personality. This workbook addresses that confusion directly.

The Habit of Making Yourself Small is a structured, clinically grounded workbook for adults who have spent years minimizing their needs, shrinking their presence, and making themselves easier for others to be around at the expense of their own voice. It does not offer assertion techniques or confidence scripts. It offers something prior to those: an honest understanding of where the smallness came from, how it operates, and what it has cost.

The workbook traces the origins of the smallness in early environments where taking up room carried consequences. It maps how the habit runs in relationships, at work, and in daily life. And it builds the practice of taking up appropriate room, not by becoming someone different, but by understanding the pattern clearly enough to make a genuine choice about it.

This workbook is for you if you find yourself apologizing before anyone asks. If you edit what you want before you say it out loud. If you have been called easygoing your whole life and privately know how much work that has required. If you have wondered whether there is a version of yourself underneath the accommodation that you have not been able to access.

Addresses people-pleasing, fawn trauma response, emotional minimization, chronic accommodation, and the long-term cost of making yourself small to keep others comfortable. Structured for independent use or alongside therapy.

Part of the Craft Your Wellness series, clinically grounded workbooks for doing real work on real life issues.
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Imprint:   Contemporary Curriculum Press
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 203mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   476g
ISBN:   9798995453345
Pages:   174
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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