This creative project aimed to provide a deeper understanding of the inherent difficulties associated with the tendency to please others through an examination of living with such inclination and how it led to acts of self-sacrifice as prompted within the narrative. Motivated to delve deeper in examining the aspects relevant to people-pleasing behavior, this creative project aimed to integrate the collective understanding of this issue using autoethnographic approach into a novella titled Dissect. Similar to previous research that integrated personal experiences, this novella reflected the perspective of Lottie, the main character who suffered from people-pleasing behavior, paralleling my own experiences as a people-pleaser. Through Lottie's journey of addressing people-pleasing behavior, this creative project revealed the detrimental effects of extreme people-pleasing, emphasizing that self-sacrifice was often a significant component demonstrating the extent of emotional and psychological investment individuals put into pleasing others. As the story unfolded, the central theme of the desire to break free from burdensome conformity to parental expectations was explored.
