Encore: The Conversation You Have Been Avoiding for Years: Dr. Rick Hanson
About this episode
Jen Hatmaker and Dr. Rick Hanson discuss the importance of confronting uncomfortable conversations and how to develop the skill of wise speech.
Some of us will sit in years of low grade misery rather than have one uncomfortable conversation. Jen will be first to raise her hand. She has put off a confrontation so long that the frustration outlasted the thing she was frustrated about. Saying the quiet thing out loud is not only about the truths we tell ourselves. Sometimes it is the sentence we owe another person, the one we have been rehearsing in the shower for eight months and still have not said. Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist, senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times bestselling author of Making Great Relationships. He reframes the whole problem in a way that took the air out of Jen’s dread: confrontation is not a personality trait you either have or you do not. It is a skill, which means it can be learned and practiced. In this episode, Jen and Rick explore: Why relationships are built out of small back and forth interactions The difference between what comes at you and what you send back, and where your real power lives Rick’s five part checklist for wise speech, plus the optional sixth What to do when a conversation goes sideways, and how to know your own lines The…
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