Conversations from the Heart
A weekly, soul-nourishing podcast offering psychologically grounded, heart-centered reflections on human relationships, inner healing, and compassion-based communication.
Focused on live mini-coaching moments to help callers shift from reactive, domination-based communication to collaborative, heart-centered connection. Listen for new scripts for stuck situations, new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and guidance on how to approach these situations with empathy, self-awareness, and effective communication strategies. Here, we emphasize understanding both one's own needs and the needs of others, creating safe spaces for vulnerable conversations, and finding ways to express ourselves authentically while respecting others' boundaries.
Conversations from the Heart
#97 - Bad Girl Energy: How To Play by New Rules
What do you do when someone you love keeps using emotional blunt force instead of listening? When the men in your life still believe criticism is caring, or that dominance equals dialogue?
In this week’s episode, we sit with two brave women learning how to communicate with men who are still playing by old, outdated rules where vulnerability is weakness, power is control, and connection gets sacrificed for the illusion of authority.
We explore what it means to keep our hearts open without abandoning ourselves, to name what hurts without making someone wrong, and to build bridges without betraying our own inner truth. You’ll hear real-life moments, fresh language to try, and permission to stop performing “good girl” energy just to keep the peace.
In this raw and real episode, two women ask:
How do I stay in connection with someone who keeps hurting me?
Why do I freeze or fawn when I know better?
SHOW NOTES:
- Why old-school masculinity often shows up as dismissal, control, or withdrawal
- How women often internalize the pressure to stay sweet, silent, and obedient
- What to say (and not say) when our boundaries are being ignored
- The art of exiting a conversation with grace and power
- How to bring “bad girl” energy back into wholeness
This episode is for anyone tired of talking to a wall, and ready to start listening to themselves.
🎧 Tune in now, and reclaim your voice, your power, and your peace.
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