This collection works in the gap between knowing what you want to say and actually saying it. It covers 9 topics across five stages. Each topic includes a micro lesson, blind spots, journal prompts, and a five-day habit builder.
The five stages:
Understanding Your Patterns — Why assertiveness feels risky, the beliefs underneath people-pleasing and conflict avoidance, the four communication styles, and identifying your default.
Setting Boundaries — What a boundary actually is and isn't, the difference between a boundary and a demand, practising small boundaries daily, and holding them when tested.
Assertive Communication — Stating needs without apologising, removing verbal hedges, disagreeing without aggressing, and letting your statements stand.
Managing Pushback — What happens when people don't like your new patterns, why the system resists when you change the implicit contract, and staying assertive under emotional pressure.
Sustaining the Shift — Moving assertiveness from conscious skill to automatic habit, catching the creep back into over-accommodation, and embedding daily practice.