Episode #26: How to Deal with Difficult Conversations

Today, I’m delving into a topic close to my heart and essential for personal growth – dealing with difficult conversations. Whether it’s with a partner, friend, family member, or colleague, these conversations can be challenging, yet they hold the key to deeper understanding and stronger relationships. I’ll share insights and strategies about these discussions with confidence, empathy, and authenticity. You can read the full podcast transcript for this episode below: Full Transcript0:00Welcome to the Fully Expressed podcast with Karenna.0:02I am your podcast host, Karenna Soto.0:04And this is the podcast show where we have different conversations that feel like you’re sitting at the dining room table with your girlfriends and you are learning growing, evolving and being inspired.0:21We have different conversations that invite you into your fullest expressed self, really defining what it means to live a life fully expressed, to be in relationship and create our relationships where you feel fully expressed.0:35And also what does it mean to show up fully expressed in your business and in your career?0:41And so every single week, traditionally, you’re either hearing from me or other amazing guest speakers that are sharing with you the different tools or stories or what it actually means to live a life fully expressed in hopes of you really finding the tools, the education, the inspiration and the perspective of what’s actually available to you.1:04So, thank you so much for tuning in today.1:06Today, we get to do a little solo session with me if you haven’t had the chance yet.1:10You know, last week, my boyfriend, Nick, my romantic partner and I did a podcast episode together.1:17And in that podcast episode, we shared our story, how we met what that actually looked like from both different perspectives where we were at before meeting each other.1:27And then we asked very specific questions or we asked our communities very specific questions that they wanted of us to answer.1:35And so I posted on social media and I also asked the virtual community that I have for women online, what would be some questions that you would want Nan I to answer?1:46Yeah.1:46So we answer those on the podcast.1:48And there was one specific question that we got from someone on social media that she was asking, you know, how do we navigate our triggers when we are having hard conversations?1:58And Nick and I shed light into what that actually looks like for us and gave really specific examples of what’s going on in the situation when I’m triggered versus when he’s triggered and how we’re actually just becoming a mirror to one another.2:12For today’s episode.2:13I wanted to dive a little bit deeper to actually giving you very specific strategies that you can do one.2:21What does it mean to be triggered in the middle of a difficult conversation?2:24What you can do when you are triggered in the middle of conversation, how to navigate someone else’s trigger as well as give you some very strategic things that to think about when you are having a hard conversation and with that being said, I also understand if you’ve heard me before, this is my thing.2:43I love talking about this.2:45You know, we can only have so much of the communication skills, right?2:49There’s also a somatic experience that’s happening when we are in the middle of a hard conversation...