6 Ways to Avoid Drama (or handle it gracefully)
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Do you have drama in your life? How did I know? ;-)I’m here to help, sharing six effective strategies to avoid or gracefully handle drama. We emphasize the importance of self-awareness, clear communication, guarding our words, setting boundaries, seeking help, and trusting in God's peace through prayer. Each strategy is rooted in a Catholic perspective, encouraging listeners to reflect on their relationships and interactions with others to foster a more peaceful and supportive environment.
Takeaways
* We all experience drama in our lives, and it's important to address it.
* Self-awareness is crucial; sometimes we are the cause of our own drama.
* Clear communication can prevent misunderstandings that lead to drama.
* Guarding our words and actions helps to avoid gossip and negativity.
* Setting boundaries is essential for maintaining healthy relationships.
* Trusting in God's peace through prayer can help us navigate difficult situations.
* Drama does not have to define our lives; we can rise above it.
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, Episode number 455, Six Ways to Avoid Drama, or Handle It Gracefully. |
| 0:11.4 | Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you. |
| 0:17.5 | Now, your worth is a woman so you can find peace balance and joy in daily living this week |
| 0:21.7 | we are talking about how to avoid drama how did i know you've got drama let's talk about it |
| 0:30.1 | hey girlfriend how are you so glad you are joining me here for the newest episode of the |
| 0:36.5 | girlfriend's podcast if you are a first time listener i want to give you a special welcome so glad you are joining me here for the newest episode of the Girlfriends podcast. If you are a |
| 0:38.5 | first time listener, I want to give you a special welcome. So glad you're here. I hope you're |
| 0:41.8 | going to like what we have to share and want to become a regular listener. If you already are a |
| 0:46.3 | regular listener, welcome back. So glad to have you with us here this week. This week we're |
| 0:51.6 | talking about drama. Now, why do we need to talk about drama? |
| 0:55.9 | Of course, we all have drama in our lives, some of us more than others, sometimes in our lives |
| 1:00.6 | more than others, in some parts of our lives more so than others. But this is something that I think |
| 1:07.8 | we all universally experienced. Have you ever felt caught up in drama that you just did not want to be a part of? |
| 1:14.2 | They've ever felt dragged down by it? |
| 1:16.8 | So let's talk about how we can avoid it or how we can respond gracefully when the inevitable happens. |
| 1:22.4 | And there's drama in your relationships. |
| 1:25.3 | This is something it's not unique to women. I'm not going to say that, |
| 1:29.7 | but this is something that women uniquely struggle with. I will say that. So this definitely |
| 1:35.1 | relates to our Catholic faith because God doesn't want us to have drama. God wants us to have |
| 1:40.9 | peace. He wants us to have charity and humility. And so we're going to talk a little bit about a Catholic perspective on drama. I've got six different things I'm going to be sharing with you. I like my bullet pointed lists. And I've got one for you here today. Six ways to avoid drama or handle it. And the first one, maybe you're not going to like this. The first one I'm |
| 2:02.4 | going to say is to practice self-awareness. This is a great way to avoid drama or handle it, |
| 2:08.7 | because sometimes, believe it or not, we are the cause of the drama. We are the problem. |
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