From People-Pleasing to Inner Belonging: Healing the Need to Earn Love

Do you find yourself constantly putting others first, saying yes when you mean no, or feeling responsible for everyone’s happiness but your own?
If so, you’ve likely been guided by a people-pleasing part — a deeply protective inner voice that learned long ago that love had to be earned through goodness, harmony, or self-sacrifice.

In this experiential workshop, you’ll be guided to gently meet and understand the part of you that tries so hard to keep the peace — and to uncover the younger, tender self it’s been protecting all along. Through a blend of Internal Family Systems (parts work), somatic awareness, guided meditation, and reflective journaling, you’ll begin to release old patterns of self-abandonment and reconnect with your authentic, self-led center.

You’ll learn to:

• Understand why your people-pleaser developed and what it’s been protecting you from.
  
  

• Build compassion and trust with your protective parts rather than trying to “get rid of” them.
  
  

• Safely meet the younger self beneath the pleasing — the one who learned it wasn’t safe to disappoint, express needs, or take up space.
  
  

• Use body-based practices to release tension, reclaim presence, and embody a sense of belonging from within.
  
  

By the end of this 2.5-hour journey, you’ll walk away with greater understanding and clarity about one of your more challenging protective patterns. You will feel lighter, more self-connected, embodied, and equipped with practical tools to honor your needs without guilt. You’ll leave not only understanding your people-pleaser, but feeling empowered to live and love from your authentic Self — no longer feeling you need to earn worthiness or love.

This workshop is facilitated by Simone Da Costa; a psychotherapist, coach, yoga teacher and holistic workshop facilitator who blends psychology, embodiment, and spirituality to help people heal their inner patterns and create lives rooted in authenticity, self-acceptance, and empowered love. With years of experience guiding clients through emotional healing, self-compassion, and inner parts integration, Simone creates a safe, insightful, and transformative space for deep reconnection with your Core Self.

Date: Sunday 23rd November, 2025

Time: 3:00-5:30pm

Location: Beyond Yoga, 35A-B Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Contribution: $300