By Aileen Mahoney

Are you too nice?  Being too nice to others often means we’re not being nice to ourselves. It can lead to us to feeling like a doormat, and resenting others.

I’ll never forget how angry I felt when a well-known acting teacher I had for class at  NYU said to me, “people tend to walk on you when you tend to lie down” I felt angry, mortified, embarrassed. I begged the department to leave that class and move into another one. This teacher would have me run and get him water or coffee during class, he’d have me doing the lights and tech, and when it was my turn for my scene work, he’d say ‘oh we’re out of time. Sorry Eileen.” (He wouldn’t even pronounce my name correctly). I wanted to cry, felt... More...