#10: How to Speak Up and Voice Your Needs

The Inner Child Podcast

Gloria Zhang, MA

Ptsd, Attachment Styles, Commitment, Self-improvement, Childhood Trauma, Health & Fitness, Therapist, Inner Child Healing, Education, C-ptsd, Codependency, Alternative Health, Self Love, Dating, Asian Canadian, Relationships, Codependent Relationships, Mental Health

4.8 • 551 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this episode, learn how to confidently voice your needs, EVEN when you feel anxious, your voice cracks awkwardly, or if it doesn't go well. It's never too late to become more assertive, even if you grew up believing that you weren't allowed to! Episode Highlights: How to get over the fear of your voice shaking, saying it wrong, or not being heardThe first principle of my method of Inner Child healing: "Speaking kindly to yourself".Why becoming assertive is a skill or "muscle" that n...

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0:00.0	How do you voice your needs with confidence and say how you honestly feel if you grew up in a home where it wasn't safe to speak up?
0:08.8	In today's episode, I share some tips on how to do this even when speaking up feels awkward, scary, or doesn't go as planned.
0:19.9	Hi, I'm Gloria Zhang and after 10 years of struggling in toxic relationships, I attracted
0:26.2	the love of my life by healing my inner child.
0:29.2	This podcast is your weekly dose of my expertise as a therapist and dating relationship
0:34.9	coach for high achievers.
0:37.2	Learn tips to overcome low self-worth, emotional baggage, and childhood trauma so that you
0:43.0	too can step into your power and attract the love you desire.
0:47.6	Welcome to the Inner Child Podcast.
0:51.3	Welcome back to the Inner Child Podcast.
0:53.9	My name is Gloria Zhang. I am a psychotherapist,
0:57.5	inner child coach, and I share tips on how to heal from childhood wounds, people pleasing,
1:03.4	and low self-worth. Today's topic was suggested by a few different listeners who submitted a
1:10.1	poll on my Instagram. If you want to join
1:12.6	the conversation, follow me at by Gloria Zhang. Now, voicing your needs and actually saying
1:20.7	how you feel is a very tricky thing if you grew up learning that it wasn't okay to do so.
1:26.7	Or if you were in a scary, abusive environment,
1:29.6	or if you felt like your feelings were always dismissed, and then it just seemed like there was
1:34.6	no point of saying how you really feel. And I thought I would start with a personal story,
1:41.5	because although I do have a podcast now, I love speaking, I love working with
1:46.6	clients. It was not the case at all in my early childhood. In fact, in elementary school,
1:53.0	I actually had selective mutism. And in grade one, I spoke so little that they actually thought
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