How to Have Challenging Conversations: When You’re a Highly Sensitive Person
Episode 11 season 5: Michelle Gladieux on Communicating With Courage
As a highly sensitive person, do you avoid conflict? Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes executive coach and consultant Michelle Gladieux for conversation about communication challenges, conflict management and emotional intelligence.
“The more interested or passionate we are about a topic, sometimes the more dangerous our words and tone can become.”
Show Notes:
When a work situation doesn’t sit right with you, do you speak up or hold your peace? What about when the boss wants to have a word with you? How do you handle disagreements with your partner or your friends? Do you avoid conflict? Or do you dive in head first and insist that you’re right? Communication doesn’t always come easily, especially if you’re highly sensitive. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth “Biz” Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and a mid-life women’s coach, welcomes Michelle Gladieux, an executive coach, consultant and author of Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges, for a discussion of communication skills for the highly sensitive. They talk about the roots of some common responses to conflict and why these approaches are usually self -defeating, and offer practical strategies and examples of how you can say what you need to say when you want to say it.
Listen and learn:
Why self-awareness is the foundation of good communication skills
Why highly sensitive persons (HSPs) can’t always respond in the moment—and shouldn’t try to
The role of emotional intelligence in communication
What you need to learn about conflict management if you want to avoid conflict
Examples of “baby steps” you could take that could make a big difference
What rationalizing the negative looks like at work and home and where a positive outlook could lead
Why we need to identify what matters most
How to handle pushback from others
Examples of “pro” communication moves
Learn More:
Gladieux Consulting website
Gladieux Consulting on Instagram
Gladieux Consulting on Facebook
Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges by Michelle D. Gladieux
Breakdown newsletter
Call/text Michelle Gladieux
Intuitive Support for Sensitive Women with Biz Cush
Biz’s Guided meditations on Insight Timer
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Resources mentioned in this episode
What’s Your Unique Mission and other free tools
Grow Your Community in Midlife: A Guide for Finding Deeper Connections as a Highly Sensitive Woman
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