Before you have that hard conversation you keep putting off, decide what you actually want from it. Know your destination first, or you'll wander into emotion and confusion instead of getting anywhere.
the very conversation you know that you need to be having that is weighing on you that you are avoiding. Here's how I want you to start preparing for it. Name your goal before your emotions do. Set your goal for what you want the conversation to be and how you want it to turn out before your emotions do. If you go into a conversation and you don't have a goal, that is like me saying, hey, you want to jump in the car with me real quick? And you go, okay, where are we going? I'm like, I have no clue. No idea. It wouldn't make sense. You need to have a destination.