Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the

Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at Rachelcable.com. Each week this podcast will bring

meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 268 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

I hope you're having an amazing week and I can't wait to dive into this episode about

over-apologizing and why it's important to reduce this habit, including

a few helpful strategies that you can implement. Now, I just want to say that this episode isn't about

refusing to apologize when you've actually got a good reason to. This episode is about learning

how to stop over-apologising unnecessarily.

So one of my wonderful mindfulness-made-easy students recently asked me how she can stop apologising for things that aren't actually her responsibility to apologise for.

And this question really resonated with me because I used to do this quite a lot too.

I'd apologise if I cooked a nice meal for my partner and

realised I could have added more pepper or salt to make it taste nicer. I'd apologise for being

early when catching up with a friend, like I'd actually say, I'm so sorry, I got here a bit

early so I could find us a nice table by the window. Or I'd say sorry for not helping out

enough, even if I already knew that I was going above and beyond what was required of me.

Like, I'm really sorry, I can only work one extra day this week, not too. Anyway, after receiving

this question about over-apologising from my mindfulness made easy student. I went over

to my Instagram at Rachel Cable and I asked my community there if over-apologizing was a topic

that they'd like to learn more about. And I have to say, first of all, a huge thank you to everyone

who responded. And second of all, wow, over-apologising seems to be quite a common

thing. So I'm very excited about this episode, and I really hope that it's helpful for you.

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