26. BONUS: How to Discuss Your Deconstruction Journey with Your Critics

Nervous about discussing your deconstruction journey with critical relatives and friends? This episode is for you! We unpack 8 tips that can help you navigate uncomfortable conversations based around deconstruction.

1. Take honest inventory of the situation
2. Reframe your goal in “coming out” about deconstruction so it’s not based on their response alone
3. Be educated
4. Remember you don’t have to share everything all at once
5. If there is a boundary you want to set, rehearse it ahead of time
6. Say how you would like to be supported
7. Circle back to common ground
8. Have someone safe you can follow up with afterwards


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