Conversations from the Heart
A weekly, soul-nourishing podcast offering psychologically grounded, heart-centered reflections on human relationships, inner healing, and compassion-based communication.
Focused on live mini-coaching moments to help callers shift from reactive, domination-based communication to collaborative, heart-centered connection. Listen for new scripts for stuck situations, new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and guidance on how to approach these situations with empathy, self-awareness, and effective communication strategies. Here, we emphasize understanding both one's own needs and the needs of others, creating safe spaces for vulnerable conversations, and finding ways to express ourselves authentically while respecting others' boundaries.
Conversations from the Heart
#80 - Reclaiming Your Voice: Strategies for Navigating One-sided Conversations
This episode is devoted to those of us who feel frustrated when we're interrupted, or when a conversation we're having is diverted in a way that doesn't feel generative and connecting.
Listen in for the three strategies we can use and the three goals we can shoot for in order to create a new conversation.
We discuss:
- 3:10 I was having a heartfelt conversation and got interrupted. What can I do in moments like these?
- 8:09 Strategy #1: Say it badly to someone else, first
- 15:19 Doing our work on the backend allows for more choicefulness in the moment.
- 16:15 Strategy #2: Reflect the person back to them, and ask consent for a different conversation
- 21:45 Strategy #3: Raise awareness about the current dynamic
- 29:16 Goal #1: Shoot for playfulness
- 35:20 Goal #2: Detach from the other person's reaction
- 36:58 Goal #3: Accept yourself at your current level of practice
- 40:01 When I can't access humor, it might be because pain is present
- 41:54 Closing thoughts
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