In Episode 4, Meredith and Megan talk about the power of negative feelings. You may have heard about the power of "positive" feelings, but "negative" or painful feelings are equally powerful and important. In this episode, we talk about the second pillar of Empowered Communication™, reprogramming hegemony, and Meredith shares the structure of her IMPACT Model™, a tool to help look at the root cause of uncomfortable feelings so that we can decide whether the pre-programmed thinking behind that feeling serves us or harms us. As humans we experience a range of feelings, and both comfortable and uncomfortable feelings can be important to our safety and wellbeing. Often uncomfortable feelings are important alerts about our safety or integrity. 

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