Photo 7 of 30 in Wall Photos

~ ๐—ช๐ž๐ž๐ค๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐—ช๐ข๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฆ ~โ 
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I am coaching an amazing woman at the moment who has found this out the hard way.โ 
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There were some people around her that were ๐›๐ž๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐š๐๐ฅ๐ฒ... ๐Ÿคจtaking advantage of her and, being downright rude to her face.โ 
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She stayed silent.โ 
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She allowed it to happen hoping it wouldn't happen again.โ 
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It happened again.โ 
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And again.โ 
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And again.โ 
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And it ๐ง๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ as the bad behaviour continued, more boundaries were crossed and it turned from nastiness to down-right bullying.โ 
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Now I am helping her to rebuild her confidence and take back control.โ 
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Staying silent will sometimes indicate to people that you have nothing to say but usually, we have something to say but we refrain from saying it - out of ๐Ÿ๐ž๐š๐ซ... out of ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ what people might think... or from a ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ.โ 
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We don't want to rock the boat.โ 
We don't want to upset the other person.โ 
We don't want to look stupid by saying something wrong.โ 
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And sometimes we think staying silent is the answer but we need to question whether this gives us control or makes us a target.โ 
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Have the ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค ๐ฎ๐ฉ.โ 
Have the ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ.โ 
Have the c๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ for people in place.โ 
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That much you deserve!โ 
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x Jodie

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