Why you need to STOP saying, ”It‘s OK”

A 9 minute episode 

Episode Highlights: 

• As women, we are generally taught to be more passive, forgiving, and appeasing, which are great qualities to have, but sometimes this leads us to push down our true feelings.
• Leslie asks listeners to think about how many times they have felt themself saying yes when you really want to say no or saying it’s ok, when it really was not ok.  
• Leslie shares a short story about how her 5 year old son, gave her an important reminder on why we don’t always have to say ‘it's ok’ 

Key Points:

1. Apologizing is something that Leslie does quite often with her son, for 2 reasons. One, she feels it is important to model this for him. Second, she is wrong sometimes, and she wants him to know that she is also always learning and trying to be her best.
2. How often does someone come to us or do we come to someone else with an ‘ I’m sorry’  or an apology of some sort, and we say it’s ok when most of the time it wasn’t ok.

Tweetable Quotes: 

 

• “It is ok to mess up, we all mess up, but we have to be accountable for those things and look for ways that we could do better.” 
• “The more that we see anything, the more normal it becomes.”
• “If we make someone talk to us before they are ready, or if they are not in a space to receive whatever it is that we are going to say, that never works out.” 
• “If we felt some type of way about an interaction or an experience enough so that someone needed to apologize, it probably wasn’t ok.”

Resources Mentioned: 

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