Ep. 156 - Disrespect and Difficult People
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Have you noticed that kindness, understanding, and patience feel harder to come by these days? You’re not alone! In a world that feels increasingly tense and on edge, it can be challenging to navigate interactions with difficult people while staying true to your own sense of peace.
In this week's episode, Barb and Michelle dive into an important conversation: How do we handle disrespect? Many of us absorb negative encounters and allow them to impact our moods and mindsets—but we don’t have to.Â
While we can’t control the external world, we can control our reactions and responses to it.
In this powerful episode, we share our personalized emotional health toolkit to help you navigate difficult times, uncomfortable feelings, and challenging interactions. We share our practical tools and essential practices for staying grounded, emotionally regulated, and responding with compassion—even in the face of triggers and heightened emotions.
It’s not always easy, and no one is perfect, but we hope that by listening to this episode, you’ll walk away with a few valuable tools to help you navigate life’s challenges with more ease and resilience.
References in this week's show:
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz.
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| 1:14.1 | factor meals.com slash barb knows best the podcast. It is me, |
| 1:42.2 | Michelle, your co-host, and I am sitting across the table from my mother |
| 1:46.4 | Barb. And we're so excited to be chatting with you all again this week, talking about life's |
| 1:51.1 | most interesting and meaningful topics. And there are lots of them. Aren't their mom? |
| 1:56.9 | There sure are. Hi, Michelle. Hey, mother. How you doing? I'm good. I have a little bit of a raspy voice today. You sure do. It's so |
| 2:04.2 | interesting, too, because we've been talking about it, and I'm not sick. No. I think it has a little bit to do with allergies, that I may have to go check that out. But I also think I have laryngitis because I've been doing so much nonstop talking, which is not in my realm of being. |
| 2:20.4 | Do you get laryngitis from talking? |
| 2:21.5 | I thought laryngitis was like a virus or something. |
| 2:24.2 | I don't even know. |
| 2:25.1 | I didn't Google it. |
| 2:25.9 | I have no idea. |
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