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🎙️ I Woke Up Prepared to Be the Bigger Person… But Apparently, the Bigger Person Called in Sick! 😂 (opens the original)
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Ever wake up determined to choose peace, extend grace, and be the bigger person… only for somebody to test every ounce of patience you have before your morning coffee? Honey, the bigger person has LEFT THE BUILDING! 😂 In this episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara McCormick brings her signature Southern sass, humor, and heartfelt mental health conversations to the exhausting reality of always being expected to be the bigger person. We're talking emotional maturity, people-pleasing, resentmen
How long can you go being Considerate without being Considered? (opens the original)
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🎙️ HOW LONG CAN YOU GO ON BEING CONSIDERATE WITHOUT BEING CONSIDERED? ❤️ How long can you keep thinking about everyone else’s feelings while nobody seems to think about yours? In this episode of Back Porch Confessions , we’re talking about the exhaustion of always being the understanding one, the flexible one, the forgiving one, the one who checks in, shows up, adjusts, and says, “It’s okay, I understand.” We unpack people pleasing, overgiving, emotional labor, resentment, one-sided relationship
THE FIVE-SECOND PAUSE: Delaying Your Reaction, Breaking Emotional Traps & Choosing Your Response (opens the original)
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🎙️ THE FIVE-SECOND PAUSE: Delaying Your Reaction, Breaking Emotional Traps & Choosing Your Response | Back Porch Confessions ❤️ What if five seconds could change the entire direction of a conversation? In this episode of Back Porch Confessions , we’re talking about the power of pausing before reacting from anger, hurt, fear, rejection, defensiveness, or frustration. Because the feeling is real... but the first reaction isn’t always the right response. We’ll unpack why emotional triggers can make
47 Uses for The First Exhausted Word in our Vocabulary- Fine (opens the original)
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“How are you?” Fine. But are we? In this deep-dive episode of Back Porch Confessions , we unpack the 47 different things we may really mean when we say the word fine — because sometimes “fine” means okay… and sometimes it means overwhelmed, angry, grieving, exhausted, lonely, scared, disappointed, emotionally numb, people pleasing, avoiding conflict, or simply trying not to fall apart. We talk about why “I’m fine” becomes such an automatic response, how childhood experiences and relationship pat
🔥 BEYOND THE BADGE: WHAT FIRST RESPONDERS CARRY; Featuring Battalion Chief Brent James (opens the original)
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https://988lifeline.org/ If you or someone you know is looking for help, needs help, in a crisis; please call or text 988. see link for instructions and instant access to 988.org 🔥 BEYOND THE BADGE: WHAT FIRST RESPONDERS CARRY 🎙️ Back Porch Confessions - The Interviews Featuring Battalion Chief Brent James What happens after the sirens stop? We call them heroes. We watch them run toward emergencies the rest of us are running away from. But rarely do we stop to ask what happens to the person unde
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