
When you're in survival mode, driven by fear, you can't grow. You need emotional safety to be vulnerable. A simple timeout word lets both people pause, reset, and return ready to connect.
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If we're in survival mode, we can't be in growth mode. So if we don't feel safe, guard down, I'm not gonna be able to be vulnerable. It's like a light switch. You can't have it on and off at the same time. It's one or the other, which is why setting the ground rules for whether it's a phrase or a trigger word or, or something, cuz it can be like, okay, we're getting emotional. It, it might just be something silly like that. The sillier it is, the better actually. You know, hey, you need 5 minutes, you need a timeout, mom, right? Whatever it is, just come up with something that it'll stop both of you in the tracks, right? Because it'll halt it and it's maybe you do need 5 minutes to go and figure it out and come back and be like, whew, that was good. You know, I needed that. I'm ready for the next part of this conversation.
Yeah. One of the things I just, one of the things I just want to highlight what you just said, if you're in survival mode, you can't be in growth mode.
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