EP143 Healthier Communication Building Trust with Emotional Honesty

Welcome to Episode 143 where we talk about how important emotional honesty and assertiveness is to building trust in our relationships.

In this episode we explore what it means to begin getting emotionally honest, being brave by being assertive, and why it helps create trust and allows for more meaningful connection in our relationships.  We contrasted healthy connecting with passive-aggressive and avoidant ways to talk to someone, and how taking risks and being vulnerable in our communication actually increases self-confidence.

 Key Elements:

• Look at ways we can communicate in unhealthy ways and why we do it.
• Discuss ways to be more clear, direct and specific.
• Process how being assertive involves emotional detachment and good boundaries.

You do realize that

passive-aggressive behavior is

aggressive behavior

for cowards,

right?

— Carolyn McCray

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