This is how to have hard conversations
Difficult discussions are never easy, but they can be managed with basic understanding and some simple techniques.
by: E.B. Johnson
No matter who you are, you’ve come to a point in your life before where you’ve had to address something you felt was better left avoided. Learning how to have difficult conversations is one of the most important skills we can learn. Addressing the issues that we have, or the conflict that we feel is part of being an adult, but it can be challenging to navigate intense situations with the grace that’s needed to reach a mutually beneficial understanding.
Hard issues take a certain know-how and understanding to address, but that’s something that doesn’t necessarily come naturally when you’re dealing with traumatic past experiences or an inner-critic that’s telling you that you’re unworthy. Learning how to address others and the way they make us feel is difficult, but it’s also a part of coming into our own, and it takes compassion, understanding and self-awareness to get there.
This is why the tough talks matter.
To many of us, it can seem easier to avoid an issue, rather than to address it. Tough talks are no walk in the park, and they can leave us…
