EP222 Podcast Archive - EP098 Emotional Honesty:The Backbone of Healthy Assertiveness

Welcome to episode 222 where we pull another one forward…an episode all about how being real is necessary if we want to be assertive.

In episode 98, we discuss how being brave means risking being open, being honest, confronting, setting limits with others and asking for what we need.  The ability to do these things is crucial if we want to have healthy relationships. We explore how to be assertive means to be genuine and therefore emotionally honest. It’s the best way but not always the easiest nor is it always well received, mostly by people who themselves are afraid to be open.  But we know we can’t be truly confident without it. We know we can’t negotiate needs and create trust without it.  And we know we can’t grow unless we get real. With ourselves, and with others.

 

Key Elements:

 

·       Discuss how fear is at the core of avoiding honesty.

·       Look at four key areas we need to work on that comprise emotional honesty.

·       Describe ways you want to come across, contrasted with how we hope no one describes us.

 

Being emotionally honest takes

commitment, practice, screwing it up,

getting better at it and

 incorporating it into who you are.

Eventually it will be HOW you operate,

and being anything else

but will feel awkward

and dishonest.

 

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