Speak Up for Yourself
Happy June!
As this is sent to you, I will be off on a beach somewhere having a little getaway with the fam. Sorry to rub it in, but I’m sending you positive, sunny vibes right now! 😎
I’m excited about this month’s Transformation Tips Theme: How to Speak Up.
We are going to be spending this month looking at various ways that we can speak up for ourselves in a loving way. In Relational Life Therapy (RLT), speaking up is about owning your right to want something from your relationship.
That’s right. It is good and reasonable to want things from your spouse or partner. And healthy relationships advocate for what they do and don’t want. But there are ways to do it that set you up for success and ways that don’t.
Your goal is to own your side of the street and speak up for yourself with as much love and clarity as you can. But this is also a bit risky, because there is no guarantee that you will actually get what you want. Therefore, you must be prepared to experience some disappointment.
While I can’t promise your partner will show up for you the way you are hoping, what I can promise is that nothing will change unless you risk speaking up.
Your Challenge for Today: As a micro practice of speaking up, reply to this email and share with me one area where you are having some difficulty advocating for yourself.
Happy to be in your corner,
Tom Page, LCPC
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