🗣️ Difficult Conversations: How to Start Them, End Them, What to Say, and How to Stand Up for Yourself

The Root and Rise Podcast | Personal Growth, Breaking Cycles, & Healing Trauma

Just in time for the holidays, Breanne and returning guest Amy Green Smith share practical tips for navigating difficult conversations without compromising your authentic self. Amy provides valuable insights on starting hard conversations, finding the right words when caught off guard, and establishing clear communication boundaries.

She also offers guidance on addressing political debates, handling tough family discussions, reinforcing personal boundaries, and gracefully excusing oneself from conversations. Our ultimate goal is to support you during any challenges you may face during the holiday season, leaving you feeling less alone and equipped with new tools to navigate any tricky conversations that come your way at the dinner table.

Let this episode be your ultimate guide in handling difficult conversations with grace and poise - you don't have to go it alone. 🫶

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We will discuss:

• How to have difficult conversations

• Approaching difficult conversations

• How to have uncomfortable conversations

• What to say when you don’t know what to say

• What to say when you are caught off guard

• What to do when you don’t want to answer a question

• Buying yourself time

• When you don't want to answer someone's question

• Setting clear boundaries in communication

• How to have difficult conversations with family

• How to shut down conversation with strangers

• Speaking up as a woman

• What does emotional contagion mean

  How to use emotional intelligence in challenging conversations

• What you can say to end a conversation

• How to handle having conversations about polarizing political topics with family members

• How to speak up for yourself without getting involved in a larger debate

• How to not be complicit with your silence

• How to set strong boundaries with someone who is not respecting your boundaries

• Examples of how to avoid talking about politics with family

• Difficult conversations around the holidays

• What to say when someone is not respecting your boundaries

• Reinforcing your boundaries with others

• Politely excusing yourself from conversations

• How to approach difficult conversations

• Getting conversation consent for hard conversations

• Tips for starting a difficult conversation

• Being vulnerable in difficult conversations

• When you set boundaries too harshly

• When is it more important to be right

• Speaking up for yourself

• Losing your voice

• Cleaning up your delivery when confronting someone

• How to confront someone with grace and kindness

• How to speak with poise

• Vulnerability hangovers

• Crafting an apology

• Fight/flight/freeze

• Establishing a boundary with someone

• Being intentional with your approach

• Emotional intelligence

• Setting strong boundaries

• Not sugar coating what you need to say

• Having difficult conversations with your mother

• Having difficult conversations with your father

• Having difficult conversations with your brother

• Having difficult conversations with your sister

• Having difficult conversations with your brother

• Difficult conversations with parents

• Difficult conversations strategies

• Why can't i have difficult conversations

• How to have difficult conversations at work

• How to have difficult conversations in relationships

• When to have difficult conversations

• How to prepare for difficult conversations

• Difficult conversation examples

  Speaking up for yourself

  Standing up for yourself against family and friends

  When the people you love don't support you

  When your support system doesn't support you

  Finding your voice

Episode Mentioned:

• How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Finally Stop People Pleasing with Amy Green Smith

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