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Are you listening to understand or to respond?
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself whether the people closest to you feel emotionally safe around you?
Not physically safe, but emotionally safe. Safe enough to express their feelings, share their fears, admit their mistakes, or simply be themselves without worrying about being judged, criticized, or rejected.
Over the years, I have come to understand that loving someone and making them feel emotionally safe are not necessarily the same thing.
We can genuinely love someone while unknowingly creating an environment where they feel they must hide parts of themselves to maintain our approval.
Think about that for a moment.
How often do we listen to someone with the intention of understanding them? Or are we simply waiting for our opportunity to respond, correct, defend, or explain?
I have learned that emotional safety is not created by always agreeing with someone. It is created through acceptance, compassion, empathy, and the willingness to understand another person’s experience without making it about ourselves.
And this requires something many of us struggle with. Awareness of our own emotional reactions.
When someone shares something uncomfortable, do we become reactive? Do we make them regret opening up? Or do we create the space for an honest conversation?
We cannot control what another person thinks or feels. But we certainly influence how comfortable they feel being their True Self in our presence.
Today, pay attention to how you respond when someone opens up to you. Listen without interrupting. Seek understanding before offering advice.
Because sometimes the greatest gift we can give another person is the freedom to be themselves without fear of losing our love or acceptance.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#love #door #connection #safety #courage
Background Photo Credit:
Peggy Anke
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself whether the people closest to you feel emotionally safe around you?
Not physically safe, but emotionally safe. Safe enough to express their feelings, share their fears, admit their mistakes, or simply be themselves without worrying about being judged, criticized, or rejected.
Over the years, I have come to understand that loving someone and making them feel emotionally safe are not necessarily the same thing.
We can genuinely love someone while unknowingly creating an environment where they feel they must hide parts of themselves to maintain our approval.
Think about that for a moment.
How often do we listen to someone with the intention of understanding them? Or are we simply waiting for our opportunity to respond, correct, defend, or explain?
I have learned that emotional safety is not created by always agreeing with someone. It is created through acceptance, compassion, empathy, and the willingness to understand another person’s experience without making it about ourselves.
And this requires something many of us struggle with. Awareness of our own emotional reactions.
When someone shares something uncomfortable, do we become reactive? Do we make them regret opening up? Or do we create the space for an honest conversation?
We cannot control what another person thinks or feels. But we certainly influence how comfortable they feel being their True Self in our presence.
Today, pay attention to how you respond when someone opens up to you. Listen without interrupting. Seek understanding before offering advice.
Because sometimes the greatest gift we can give another person is the freedom to be themselves without fear of losing our love or acceptance.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#love #door #connection #safety #courage
Background Photo Credit:
Peggy Anke
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Biggest heat: #tangled keeps showing up, with #earn right behind it and #digital_art on a run. #caturday and #catsbeingcats are tied for the cute lane. #oregon is the one nobody wants trending.
Community cash and cake. #earn is the room where the lights stay on.
Art, costumes, creatures.
Food, games, side hustles.
Hard news, no glitter.
That is the circuit. Subscribe to
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