Episode notes
From the outside, giving from love and giving from fear can look exactly the same.Both may involve helping, listening, supporting, forgiving, and showing up.
The difference is what is happening inside you while you give.
In this reflective solo episode of The Inner Work, Rose Gaudion explores the quiet question underneath so much of what women offer the people they love: if I stopped being useful, would people still want me? She shares her own experience of being the person everyone came to, and the slow discovery that being needed is not the same as being loved.
This is an invitation to bring choice back into the moment of giving. To ask: do I want to, or am I afraid not to? And to discover that generosity without self-betrayal is not selfishness, it is the foundation of a fuller life.
The Inner Work is a podcast for women who have learned to disappear for other people and are ready to recognise the patterns beneath their pain, reclaim their voice,and begin rising into their own light.