The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People

Showing up for yourself takes place in your habits

If you need to get better at naming your emotions, the Center for Nonviolent Communication’s website has a fantastic list of feelings to describe what’s going on with you in a given moment, which might help you strengthen your emotional vocabulary.

When you have a clear sense of what specifically makes you feel good (or bad), you can improve your self-awareness, recognize your true needs, set boundaries, and effectively respond to problems (big and small).

And it’s not like you can simply opt out of the values–decisions connection; if your choices aren’t rooted in your values, it just means that someone else’s values will dictate what you do.

So many of our decisions are related to how we’ll spend our most valuable resources: our time, money, and energy.

it’s important to get comfortable with the first three steps of the showing-up process—noticing, naming, and processing—and just sit in that place for a sec before you move on to the fourth step: responding.