Learning to Set Boundaries
Episode 11: Natalie Lue on the Joy of Saying “No”
Do you have trouble saying “no”? What could the trees tell you if you stopped to listen? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush and author Natalie Lue talk about the liberating power of that two-letter word.
“When we allow ourselves to say ‘no,’ it’s acknowledging, ‘I have agency here.”
Show Notes:
How can one small word carry so much baggage? Yet the word “no” has so much power—both to keep us from happiness and to empower us to live our best lives. How are you using the power of “no” in your life? Are you letting it hold you back or using it to free yourself to live in authenticity? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman (previously Woman Worriers) podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes self-help blogger and podcaster Natalie Lue, author of The Joy of Saying No, for an insightful conversation about emotional baggage, nay-saying inner critics and why learning to say “no” is the gift we need to give to our inner child.
Listen and learn:
How a health crisis might lead to deep insights
Who controls how much we listen to—and believe—our inner critic
What’s going on in our lives when our inner critic speaks the loudest—and how we can shift it
The different—and very clever—approaches the inner critic can take to influence our behavior
Why we need to learn to differentiate between our emotional past and our present lives
What we’re really saying when we say “no.”
Why we push ourselves beyond the point where we want to—or should
The real role of self-care and how we short-change ourselves by misinterpreting it
How “no” can connect us with our authenticity
Learn more:
Natalie Lue’s website
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions podcast
Natalie Lue on Instagram
Natalie Lue on Twitter
Baggage Reclaim on Facebook
The Joy of Saying No: A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries and Say Yes to the Life You Want by Natalie Lue
Guided meditations from Progression Counseling
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