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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago
Mindfulness

You Can Feel Safe Even When Your Relationship Feels Shaky

Deep safety shifts from external approval to an internal capacity to tolerate conflict, enabling truthful expression without abandoning oneself.
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago
Mindfulness

How to Be More Honest and Less Afraid of the Truth

Internal safety and self-compassion enable honest truth-telling despite primal survival fears of rejection, allowing openness without equating conflict with personal annihilation.
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fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

The Key to Unshakable Safety When Speaking the Truth

That is, a way to speak your truth, even when it's unwanted, that allows you to honor our understandable fear, and also consider your actual reality. It doesn't mean ignoring the potential consequences, but at the same time, not letting the fear dictate your behavior, with no alternatives other than silence or inauthenticity. In other words, how to heal the dread associated with being displeasing and disapproved of that stems from your conditioning, generational history and experience.
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