The Transforming Anxiety Podcast

How are you doing this week, my friend? Here in the States we're on the eve of Thanksgiving, which means the eve of the holiday season...and with that, oh boy, with that comes a whooooole bunch of...well, overwhelming, stressful, anxiety-inducing STUFF. Amiright? So I thought we'd kick off the holiday season with a little talk about kindness. Specifically how (and why) we can be kind, not polite.  We all know polite people. They're always good for a nice word, a courteous response, an absolutely approprite way of showing up and saying "the right thing." There's nothing wrong with polite. Politness helps the world spin a little bit more smoothly and gently for sure. It makes moving about the world with all of the humans more pleasant. Definitely. And... ...sometimes polite gets in the way of kind. Because sometimes being polite means we're choosing other people over ourselves. Sometimes politeness requires abandoning our wants and feelings in the interest of what we're "supposed" to be wanting and feeling. Som