335 - ‘Tis The Season: Being Assertive

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The holidays are packed with clashing expectations in relationships. Assertiveness is one of the tools we can use to navigate these challenging situations. Being assertive doesn’t mean being aggressive—it simply means clearly communicating your needs to others. In this episode, Heather Kolb joins us to discuss how to be assertive, the benefits of being assertive about your needs, and how to navigate the moments when someone might respond negatively.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Pure Desire Podcast, helping you take back your life from unwanted sexual behavior and betrayal trauma.
0:10.5	Happy December people.
0:12.5	I am your host, Trevor Windsor, and you're listening to Episode 335, the Pure Desire Podcast.
0:17.1	Here joining me, as always, is my co-host, Nick Stumbo.
0:20.0	Knock, knock.
0:24.2	Who's there? Melvin, the interrupting cow. Melvin the interruptive. I've never heard the cow have a name. I've heard interrupting cow, but Melvin,
0:32.9	huh? Interesting. I just always have heard Melvin or, yeah, some unique name.
0:37.8	Feels like a Midwest name to me.
0:39.0	It's like you need to throw that in to kind of throw them off for what's about to happen
0:42.3	because then they're focused more on the name and not the interrupting Cal part.
0:46.1	Fair enough.
0:46.7	Yes, thank you for playing along.
0:48.1	Appreciate it.
0:48.7	Glad to.
0:49.5	Glad to.
0:50.3	We had Heather Colb, our content manager, neuroscience expert, author extraordinaire.
0:56.4	You can put all those in there if you want.
0:58.4	But we had her to talk about this new series that we're starting in the holiday season called Tis the season.
1:05.6	And we talked about today being assertive.
1:08.1	Yes.
1:08.5	Sorry that wasn't a holiday joke.
1:10.7	I mean, maybe I could have started with jingle jingle or something like that.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pure Desire Ministries, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Pure Desire Ministries and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.