Betsy GuerraBilingual Keynote Speaker, Psychotherapist/Coach, Author, Leadership Training and Life Coach Certification

Breaking The Silence I Grew Up With

5 Sept 2025 · 0 min

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Short conversational transcript from a YouTube video in which Betsy Guerra and another speaker discuss personal growth in communication. The speaker describes learning to express emotions with help from a psychologist and contrasts that with their family background, which discouraged open emotional communication and difficult conversations.

I was able to practice a lot of what I had learned with you. And part of that was also to to to speak up. But I remember you saying, I have a hard time communicating.
Yes. Well, I did until I got with a psychologist that taught me that things would just be a lot easier if I expressed myself, if I opened up. But that's not the house that I came from. I think my family, in general, struggled with that and struggled with opening up and struggled with having. Having those open lines of communication.
Or difficult conversations.
Yeah. Or definitely. Definitely. And that's still, for me, today is not easy. But I see many conversations or I that I have, even with our kids nowadays, that I think to myself, I would have never had this conversation with my father.