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I can’t advocate for myself without getting emotional
- A reader writes about their reaction to crying in work conversations while advocating for themselves.
- They can’t advocate for themselves at all without getting emotional.
- The reader cries as soon as they start talking while negotiating salaries for themselves or anything else.
- They feel embarrassed that negotiating a raise is not worth the emotional energy, stress and embarrassment.
- The reader hates rocking the boat and gets upset and stressed preemptively because they expect the conversation to be adversarial.
- The reader should get into therapy to help unravel those early lessons, drain their power, and help rewire their brain to better serve them now.
- The therapist can help them fix it for the long-term and increase their quality of life.
- Therapy could also help increase their self-confidence in advocating for themselves in the future.
- An adversarial mindset from their family while growing up could be the reason behind their emotional reaction while advocating for themselves.
- Therapy could help them rewire their brain, so it's no longer wired to have an emotional reaction when they advocate for themselves.
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