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NOTES FROM A

RECOVERING PEOPLE PLEASER

2026 COLLECTION

For a long time, I thought being good meant being agreeable. That being loved required being easy, available, and understanding at the expense of myself.

Notes From a Recovering People Pleaser is a collection about unlearning that pattern.

About the often invisible ways we abandon ourselves in order to be accepted. About the slow process of noticing it. And the even harder process of choosing something different.

These paintings are rooted in journal entries written during my own healing process. Small observations, uncomfortable realizations, and moments of clarity that came while learning to set boundaries, trust myself, and exist without constant external approval.

Each work in the collection corresponds to one of these written “notes.” Together, they form a visual record of what it feels like to move from self-abandonment toward self-trust.

The partially unfinished portraits reflect this process. They are intentional, not because they are incomplete, but because they are becoming. Just like the people in them. Just like me. Just like all of us.

Healing is not linear. Identity is not fixed. And becoming yourself is not a single moment but a continued process.

Each piece in this collection is a one-of-one original.

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“Some versions of me were built for approval”
$185.00
“I spent years mistaking self-abandonment for kindness”
$185.00
“Boundaries are a balance of compassion and strength”
$185.00
“I confused being needed with being valued”
$185.00
“Resentment usually arrived after silence”
$185.00
“I had no idea who I was without external validation”
$185.00
“Healing changed the way I exist in relationships”
$185.00
“Reinforcing a boundary is harder than setting one”
$185.00
“People pleasing is still dishonesty, even when it comes from fear”
$185.00
“No one talks about the identity crisis that comes when survival mode ends”
$185.00

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