Silence is a Choice

Hey,

You don’t need to hear this from me, but…you don’t need to be perfect to be okay by me.

You don’t have to be what or how I wish you to be.

I respect and value alignment of Values with Actions, and particularly respect when Active Listening is one of those values. Not all of us share this value (or know how to model it), because we don’t have a lived experience of being Listening to and Understood.

A hard lesson for someone like me, who leads with assuming the best of others unti...