When we allow ourselves to be aggressive to ourselves, then we allow almost in kind other people to be that aggressive with us.

We expect it.

As we learn to love ourselves, then we're not going to accept it from the outside world.

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and

others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease. I'm Brett Kistler, here today with

my co-host, Joe Hudson. Hi, Joe. Hi, Brett. Good to see you. Yeah, good to see you too. So we do,

we do a lot of work with anger in this work.

And one thing that I've seen you say a lot of times in courses or even in a coaching session is, like, let's make the passive aggression active.

Let's like really bring it forward.

And so we've done a lot of talking about anger and how to move that aggression. And I want to now take

this episode and go into the passive aggression and see what it is. How does it show up in people's

lives? Yeah. I want to really go into the kind of the nitty gritty into the subtlety and how we can

work with it. Yeah. How's that sound? Sounds great. I would love that.

Awesome.

Yeah.

Let's do it.

So just to start with, I want to really just define our term.

What is, how do you define passive aggression?

The form of aggression that triggered me for the longest period of time in my life.

Passive aggression is just, I mean, you can almost call it covert aggression, but it's,

it's basically aggression that's not being owned as aggression.

Sometimes not by the person who's doing it, sometimes not by the person who it's being

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