Episode 11 - Letting Go
Do you find it difficult knowing how to let go of people and friendships that are no longer serving you? This week on the podcast, I’m exploring this very topic – and it’s one that many of us find very challenging indeed.
One of the reasons, I think, that this is so difficult is because letting go of people feels so very final. The reality though is that, as we go through life, it’s only natural for the people around us to change. We have different requirements for friendships as we move through the stages of our life. As I share in the podcast, people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
In this episode, I talk a bit about how this ties into our deeper need to be liked, the need to fit in, and ‘to belong’. My belief is that we’re not supposed to belong in every friendship group, and although this can be hard to acknowledge, it’s important that we do. We can waste a lot of time and energy trying to be liked by people who just aren’t right for us.
And letting go of people can be an important act of self-care, too. It’s important that we can recognise when and where there are people in our life who have a consistently negative impact on our energy and how we feel.
I share with you some of my thoughts on this topic, and the things that I’ve learned over the years around letting people go. I also offer some guidance on knowing when it’s time to let go of someone and then on the flip side, how to know who you really value having as part of your life. That’s your Tough Love Energy homework for this week, too – to spend some time reflecting on the people in your life, and whether there are any people who frequently bring you down.
And if this episode resonated with you, I invite you to take my free People-Pleasing quiz. It will help you identify which type of people-pleaser you are, and therefore how people-pleasing tendencies may be showing up for you. Once you’ve completed the quiz, sign up to receive your results guide, which has a number of practices to help you begin to shift old patterns and behaviours around people-pleasing. You can take the free quiz here.
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Until next time,
Niamh x