Keeping the Peace Is Costing You Everything

How to Stop Walking on Eggshells, Face Difficult Conversations, and Reclaim Your Voice

229 pagesPublished 24 July 2026Kindle, paperback & hardcoverPeople Pleasing Recovery

You would rather suffer in silence than risk somebody being angry with you.

So the hard conversation never happens. The resentment goes somewhere quieter. And the peace you are keeping turns out to be very expensive, paid for entirely by you.

For a people-pleaser, conflict is not a preference to be managed. It is a threat response, and that is why the usual advice about assertiveness has never worked. This book treats the fear of other people’s anger as the real subject. You will learn to stay in a difficult conversation without shutting down, without fawning, and without abandoning your own position halfway through.

Keeping the Peace Is Costing You Everything is Book Three of The People Pleaser Recovery Series.

For readers who avoid every hard conversation and are ready to find out what happens if they do not.

The series

The People Pleaser Recovery Series

  1. The Fawn Response
    Book 1The Fawn Response
  2. Afraid to Be Disliked
    Book 2Afraid to Be Disliked
  3. Keeping the Peace Is Costing You Everything
    Book 3Keeping the Peace Is Costing You EverythingYou are here
  4. Raised to Please
    Book 4Raised to Please
  5. The Guilt of No
    Book 5The Guilt of No
  6. Always Giving, Never Getting
    Book 6Always Giving, Never Getting
  7. The Good Girl Wound
    Book 7The Good Girl Wound
Nadia Ellison

About the author

Nadia Ellison

People-Pleasing Recovery Guide

Nadia Ellison has spent years studying the psychology behind one of the most common, and most misunderstood, human patterns: the compulsion to keep everyone else happy, no matter the personal cost. Her work sits at the intersection of trauma psychology, attachment theory, and practical self-help.

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