Episode Summary:

In this episode, we tackle a tricky and trigger-y subject. Real-life is what we all face and from time to time have a difficult time navigating. Join us as we dive in and see what happens while we explore times in life when boundaries are breached, betrayal happens and anger erupts. When finding the silver lining, turning the other cheek, and simply thinking positive doesn’t serve you, we unpack the alternatives. Sometimes it isn’t in our best interest to simply reach for a better feeling thought but rather excavate the shit and make a shift.

Listen for these powerful truth bombs:

When we can go overboard and take TOO much responsibility for our role in a situation

• How it's appropriate to place anger at the feet of people who do harm

• Everything is not black and white right and wrong….and the skill required to tease out the grey

• Why anger is a positive emotion and useful in giving us the energy needed to make necessary and important changes

• Evaluating our own paradigms, thought processes and lenses through which we look, and change filters where needed

• The dark side of personal responsibility

• How being quick to take responsibility is sometimes a form of control so we don’t have to feel our feelings

• How taking the high road is sometimes a smokescreen for a wrong turn

• How to know if you are carrying more responsibility than is truly yours

• Understanding the feelings of others…knowing we don’t always have to understand them….but we do have to believe them

• The importance of enacting strong powerful boundaries even with people we love

• How we can love and still be sad and angry with someone

• Holding ourselves with a ton of compassion when we don’t get it right