Do Hard Conversations Make You Squirm? Here’s What To Do.
Sometimes you have to talk tough. It’s a ticket to growth.
You have to make a staff member redundant.
You need to confront your sister about her drinking.
You want to raise the subject of divorce with your partner.
You have to tell old friends you don’t want to holiday with them again.
Those are hard conversations, right? Most of us have been in situations when we’d rather run and hide than say what needs saying. Or squirmed through an agonising delivery.
And it’s especially tough when we know the impact — the hurt — that our words will cause the person on the end of them.
“You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‘I really like your tie.’ “ — Madeleine Albright
The art of talking tough
In therapy we talk a lot about hard conversations.
People will often see a therapist aiming of gaining some clarity about what they want — whether it’s in their career, their…
