how to move past the discomfort of disagreement
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How to move past the discomfort of disagreement?
We grew up mistaking being good at yelling for being good with confrontation but articulating your needs, quietly, is a whole other thing. It requires self inquiry, conviction in your own feelings and needs, and a bunch of tools in the toolkit to navigate disagreement and repair.
In this episode Caitlin and Chantelle get into what it really means to sit in discomfort - with yourself, with the people you love, and in the rooms you're responsible for holding. We start where most conversations about conflict don't: in the body. Because before tension is intellectual, it's physical. It's shoulders at your ears. It's a stomach dropping. It's a four-year-old version of you climbing into your lap when someone's tone shifts.
We chat about our own default tension responses - the defensive whip, the disappearing act (dives into hedges) and what it took to start doing it differently. We’ll explore different types of tension and why collapsing them into one undifferentiated "hard" is costing us in our relationships.
We even walk the talk, sharing our first moment of relationship tension as co-founders & besties. It’s giving romcom but friendship. There’s a train station, a bathroom, and the make up moment the movie wouldn’t be complete without.
This episode comes with two gentles nudges:
Where is an apology getting in the way of deepening a relationship?
Where did you disappear this week when you could have deferred instead?
Go on. Pop it in your ears.
And as always, we go wherever connection lives. This time it sits on the other side of discomfort.
If anything in this episode stirs something big, please bring it to a friend, a therapist, or someone who loves you.
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