Inner Work With MaryAnn Walker: Life Coach for Highly Sensitive People & Recovering People-Pleasers
Welcome to Inner Work with MaryAnn Walker
A podcast for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Recovering People Pleasers.
If you’ve ever been told you’re too sensitive, too emotional, or that you just care too much, this podcast is your reminder that your sensitivity isn’t the problem. And your desire to make others happy isn’t the problem either. The real issue is that your nervous system requires a different set of tools for regulation—and those tools can be learned.
If you’ve found yourself Googling “why am I so sensitive,” “how to stop people pleasing,” or “how to set boundaries without guilt,” you’re in the right place.
Here, we explore how to:
- Recover from people-pleasing patterns without guilt or fear
- Set boundaries that feel safe, sustainable, and aligned
- Regulate your nervous system instead of overriding your emotions
- Build balanced, emotionally healthy relationships
- Learn to trust that your sensitivity becomes a strength when your nervous system is supported
Through personal insights, practical tools, and honest conversations, MaryAnn Walker helps you move from chronic overwhelm to grounded confidence—so you can get your needs met without guilt, speak up without over-apologizing, and stop abandoning yourself to keep the peace.
Most people try to fix or suppress their sensitivity.
Here, you’ll learn how to support it.
Welcome—I’m so glad you’re here.
If you’re ready for more customized support, I would love to work with you. You can have a life filled with peace, clarity, and connection—and I can show you how.
👉 Inquire about availability and next steps here:
https://maryannwalker.life/contact-me
Follow me on social media!
https://www.tiktok.com/@maryannwalker.life
https://www.instagram.com/maryannwalker.life/
https://www.facebook.com/maryannwalker.life
https://www.youtube.com/@maryannwalkerlife
Inner Work With MaryAnn Walker: Life Coach for Highly Sensitive People & Recovering People-Pleasers
5: Manuals
We wouldn't consciously choose to make someone else 100% responsible for our emotional state. But when we are acting through emotional childhood, we are doing exactly that. We are making our happiness 100% conditional upon how someone else chews their food, drives, or cleans.
We know we are acting through emotional childhood when we discover we have an invisible manual for how others how they should think, act, and behave in order for us to feel good.
Clinging to these manuals/expectations robs us of emotional accountability and creates resentment and power struggles.
Releasing these manuals/expectations helps us to open up mental and emotional space that we can then invest into the things we DO want to create vs resisting the things we DON'T want in life.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaryAnn.Walker.Life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maryann.walker.life/
Email: innerwork.mw@gmail.com
Website: www.maryannwalker.life