How to Stop Taking Offense: Transform Your Response to Criticism and Boost Your Confidence!

So when someone does criticize us, justified or not, right or wrong, take the offense. Like, how dare they say that? You know? And I realized that a pastor friend of mine said the word offense. I couldn't remember if it was translated in Greek or Hebrew, but it translated over to bait. That you don't have to take the bait. Yes, I can say something offensive, but you don't have to pick it up and be offended and carry that thing around with you. That's kind of what I've been trying to put myself in that space moving forward. It was so easy for me to get offended before I started growing up and understanding that coaching and correction is coming from a loving place, from the people in my life.