Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened.

Today we're going to be talking about assertiveness and the empath, which I think is a really

important topic for empaths to consider. How assertive are you.

A lot of Empaths struggle with this because you know typically Empaths tend to be very kind and compassionate and enjoy

letting other people go first in life and as you're walking through the door

we're going to be talking about how you can be an empath and still be kind and compassionate and consider it and assertive.

So Denise, will you start us off by giving us some definitions?

I think one of our concerns is if we do attempt to become more assertive or to reach out to get our needs met,

we're afraid it's either going to be misconstrued as aggression or passive aggressiveness or that because

it's such a change from what our default position has always been, people might not openly embrace us coming from a more assertive standpoint than what

we've done in the past. So assertive behavior is is characterized by honesty, by confidence, by care, active participation,

concern for the rights of others, which that definition alone is such an indicator of how so many of us navigate through life as it is.

But a person who displays assertive behaviors is very honest, speaks confidently, actively engages in the situation, and deals directly

with the problem.

So this is often considered, you know, one of the better ways to deal with a situation.

Equally though, a person who is being assertive

is concerned about the rights of others

and doesn't violate them.

They express their desires and opinions openly

so there's more understanding and the confidence is an

arrogance it's more a sense of self which I think is an important factor as well to

consider people who are coming from an assertiveness place to be more satisfied with how

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