The ones with your friends. The one with your mother. The one with that colleague who always manages to get under your skin. The one with your partner. Kids and strangers too.
And the one that underpins the others:
Your relationship with yourself.
The ones with your friends. The one with your mother. The one with that colleague who always manages to get under your skin. The one with your partner. Kids and strangers too
And the one that underpins the others:
Your relationship with yourself.
What your parents modelled to you (the good, the bad, and the ugly). What the other girls said about you in school. What that dickhead at work said to you. That disastrous situationship that left its mark. The shifting sands of friendships as everyone’s lives have changed shape. Not to mention all the complete strangers who’ve had way more influence on your life than they’re worth.
Add to that society's ideas about how women should behave: Nice, caring, grateful, and certainly never outspoken, bossy, or selfish.
Nope. Just keep taking care of everyone, and plaster that smile that isn't a real smile on your face.
And alllll that wiring is showing up in every single one of your relationships.
And we’re doing this work at the start of October so that you have all the necessary skills in place and practiced before the holidays hit, before the family WhatsApp hits its annual peak, before you negotiate a pay rise at your end-of-year review, and before your New Year’s conversation about where your relationship is heading.
But more than all of that, it's so that your current wiring doesn’t hold you hostage any longer than it already has.
Get honest about what actually matters to you by examining where and why you’re unsatisfied and frustrated in your relationships.
Holding everything in takes its toll and gets you nowhere. Build the skills to confidently express yourself in any room and hit send on the hard stuff.
Learn how to take care of yourself when things get awkward or tense so that instead of freezing or avoiding situations, you can show up for yourself.
Get to know your assertive side so that you can speak up and stand up for yourself, and have better relationships because of them.
You already know why you go quiet, why you over-explain, why you say yes when you meant no. That's not what's missing. What's missing is being able to say the sentence itself: finding the words, and then saying them out loud to the other person.
That's what this day builds towards. Not another pattern to recognise. The actual words. And what to do in the ten minutes after you've said them, which is the part nobody else teaches.
This isn't designed to give you one more thing to think about. It's designed to leave you able to do it without me in the room.
Sign up and join me for one day, live, normally taught inside my membership, Powerful. Free and open to everyone until Oct 8th, £147 after.