Episode 697: The Art of Saying No Without Explaining Yourself

Most of us were never taught to say no cleanly.

We were taught to soften it, justify it, apologize for it, and wrap it in so much explanation that the other person barely registers it as a no at all.

In this episode I make the case that the compulsion to over-explain your no is not politeness. It is people-pleasing. And it is costing you more than you realize. I share my own practice of declining social invitations that do not fit my capacity without a paragraph of justification, and offer what I have found to be a clean, warm, and complete alternative. The version of you who can hold a boundary without apology has a great deal more energy for the things she is actually saying yes to.

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