Episode 9-Learning to Advocate for Yourself with guest Whitney Bandemer

On this week's episode of Embracing Your Season host Paige Clingenpeel has special guest and personal friend, Whitney Bandemer on the show to address being vulnerable, asserting your needs and figuring out how to find trusted people to help you make the best and wisest decisions in life. Whitney is a wife and mother as well as a former attorney, an organizational architect, experienced people leader and owner of WB Consulting LLC. 

Paige’s Takeaways:

1. We should have a multitude of counselors in our lives in order to make decisions and have a community that can help us be healthy and whole.  A multitude of counselors is important because we have blind spots.  We have biases that we bring into our day to day lives as well as bigger decisions we have to make. We need trusted people in our lives who have discernment. We also need to choose wisely who we allow to speak into our lives.
2. We have to be open and honest about what we need from the people in our lives or in our relationships. Communicating like this can help our relationships across the board. Help them understand what their role is in the conversation.
3. How can we implement some of these things for our kids now? How can we help them grow in their vulnerability or grow in their needs? We need to be modeling this well and  share our emotions appropriately so they can see what emotions look like. When they see that we can be vulnerable and share deep and hard emotions, they can learn from that. Teach them who they can trust. Helping them from a young age, identify what makes a trusted friend, a trusted adult, someone they can walk alongside with in life because they aren’t always going to come to us.

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