
234. How to Stop Being Defensive
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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Are You Centring Yourself?
If i feel an urged response, fully to the person, especially to point out something they've done wrong, or some way that they're not perfect, right? That's such a sign that i am taking this feedback and i'm using it to say to myself, you're not perfect. Now. You're bad tso then my initial self protective response is then to want to point out that the other person's not perfect either. But of course, nobody suggested anyone should be perfect, other than me and my brain. I do not believe that processing your own emotion and expressing it is centring yourself. If we believe that it does mean something, it actually means sort of making everything
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