Today I decided that I am going to learn to assert myself and my boundaries! This past week contained more than one event of someones behaviors causing a negative physiological response in my body. I decided that I am going to grow up and face these feelings with some compassionate self-discipline. I told somebody "hey, I know you didn't mean any harm but (when you did blank) it caused me to get angry/upset...blah blah blah."
*I am utterly non-confrontational, so doing this freaked me out, but I did it, and the situation was immediately remedied. Being assertive is scary, but it contains a great deal of self-respect and shows that you value yourself!
“The Negro will only be truly free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive selfhood his own emancipation proclamation.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
i did this today! communication is key. it's difficult to say what you really feel and straight on to the person you want to drop kick, but when you do, it feels so much better, you are being true to yourself, and you no longer want to drop kick people.
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