
EP44: Be a Better Fighter
This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice
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The Importance of Laughing in a Situation
Laughter can be a good way to break tension. But it can also feel really invalidating when you laugh in someone's face about something they have done or said that made you upset. When I was sexually abused by a daycare worker as a child and then interviewed by the detective about it at seven years old, I could not stop laughing. And so if you just tell yourself in those moments that you are safe and you work on some grounding techniques, take some deep breaths, it will help you feel a little safer and maybe you will respond with laughing.
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