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Navigating Personal Beliefs Within Religious Contexts and Maintaining Relationships: Guest Appearance on Between Us Podcast
Dr. Julie Hanks recently appeared as a guest on the Between Us Podcast. They discussed how to navigate personal beliefs within religious contexts, how to maintain relationships, and more.
Assertiveness & Differentiation: How to Be Your Authentic Self in Relationships
In healthy relationships, individuals can be close to one another while also retaining certain differences; we don’t have to be exactly alike to be friends!
Raising an Assertive Daughter: Launching Your Daughter Podcast
We all want to raise emotionally strong daughters, but sometimes we have to pause and do a little work on ourselves.
How Expressing Difference Brings Connection
How is differentiation of self related to assertiveness? When a woman asserts herself, she is differentiating her needs, thoughts, feelings, or wants from another person. She is essentially saying, “I’m think something different than you. I have other feelings than you do. I’m not you.” True assertiveness, as I define it, means that this is done in a way that’s not alienating or rude but still clearly makes those differences known.