You Don’t Need Their Approval to Feel Enough A Healing Guide for Empaths Who Overgive

Stop shrinking yourself just to be accepted. In You Don't Need Their Approval to Feel Enough, Sophie Black speaks directly to empaths and recovering people-pleasers who've spent their lives chasing validation, softening their truth, and believing that love must be earned through self-sacrifice. If you've ever been told you're "too sensitive," if you've felt invisible unless someone needed you, or if you've confused approval with love — this book is your mirror and your medicine. Through 10 transformative chapters, you'll explore: Why overgiving feels like love (but isn't) How to stop internalizing silence as your fault The real cost of staying quiet to keep others comfortable The difference between being wanted and being valued How to build unshakable worth without their validation Backed by emotional depth, poetic clarity, and raw honesty, Sophie helps you reclaim your voice, set sacred boundaries, and finally come home to yourself. You don't need to be understood to be real. You don't need to be chosen to be enough. You just need to stop abandoning yourself. This book is for the woman who is finally done performing. She's not trying to be liked. She's ready to be free.