Understanding these communicative styles is a lot like understanding Goldilocks and the Three Bears and their porridge.

Passive is just too little. We don't do enough for ourselves when we're too passive. Aggressive is too much. We overdue. We explode. We volcano. Passive aggressive is somehow

both doing too little and too much at the same time. This is part of why this is tricky

to figure out without help and guidance and real safety and learning, shame-free. And we have assertiveness.

And assertiveness, just like the porridge, is just right. Hello, welcome to the show.

This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.

And on today's episode, we are exploring emotional strength training for highly sensitive

people on assertiveness. All right, y'all. If you have not heard part one one please go listen to episode one of this series on

assertiveness it is going to break down all of the definitions of passive aggressive passive aggressive

and assertiveness go find that episode so you can do the deep dive. This episode will mean so much more

if and when you do. How can we be more assertive situation to situation moment to moment?

We are often challenged and depending on our discomfort, we will lean passive or aggressive. And if we can know that assertiveness, it is the

guiding light, it is the central middle ground, it is the safe and secure road that puts us on

the path to our higher purpose, our higher self that honors our seeker's spirit. Assertiveness also becomes

a sort of compass as we interact with each other, person to person, season to season.

So I have another scenario, just like I broke down for you last time. The characters today, they might be you, they might be someone you know.

Please come to Patreon and share under this episode your scenario.

I might pick it to do this in a future episode.

So we have Julie today, and Julie is a highly competent person. She has a history of overfunctioning and people

pleasing, especially in the workplace. She has a very impressive resume, and she interviews very well.

Now, Molly is her new boss. Molly is supportive, well-intentioned. She may be a bit over-involved.

So here is the setup. And this is what's happening in the internal world for Julie.

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