When Words Would Wound: The Power of Intentional Silence

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Sometimes life hits so hard that we become silent—not because we have nothing to say, but because speaking from our wounds would hurt rather than heal. I share my personal experience with seasons of silence and how they serve as crucial times for internal rebuilding.

• Recognizing when our words would come from a place of toxicity rather than healing
• Using silence as an intentional practice for rebuilding and rebirth
• Understanding that we can't pour healing from an unhealed place
• Allowing ourselves time to process pain before speaking about it
• Learning to speak eventually from a place of healing rather than hurt
• Embracing silence not as surrender but as strategic recovery

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Episode Transcript

Ty Wonder (00:04):
Welcome to Robin's Nest, the empowerment podcast
with nourishment for the mindand spirit.
Welcome to the Nest.

Coach Robbin (00:15):
This is Robbin, your empowerment coach.
Welcome to the Nest.
Lately I've been kind kinda ina place of silence, In a place
where I felt like I didn't haveanything to say.
There are things that can hityour life, that will silence you

(00:37):
, when you don't want to talk toanybody.
You don't want to respond toanybody Because you know that
even if you do respond, yourresponse is going to be toxic.
Your response is going to benegative.
Whatever you say is going to bepunitive.
How it comes out is going to bemisinterpreted because you

(00:59):
don't have anything to say.
There have been times when Ididn't want to speak.
I didn't want to do a podcastbecause I didn't have anything
to say.
But there are times when thingsget better.
You begin to want to speakagain.
You begin to want to pour outinto other people again, because

(01:21):
you know that what you'repouring is pure and what you're
pouring is not going to.
You're pouring is not going tohurt, but it's going to heal.
But in those seasons when I haveto be silent, when I don't want
to speak, it's because I don'twant to hurt.
I want to speak life.
I want to speak things thatwill heal.

(01:42):
So sometimes, when things hitmy life and I get silent.
If you know me, you know it'sgot to be a big deal for me not
to want to talk, for me not tohave something to say, the
things that hurt me so bad thatit made me speechless.
Why did I not want to talk whenI had to keep things and

(02:05):
thoughts to my own self?
Because if I speak, it's goingto come out incorrectly.
If I speak, it's going to comeout like a serpent's tongue.
If I speak, it's going to cutyou like a knife.
So I choose not to say anything.
Because it is the season whereI'm having to be silent to reset

(02:26):
my thoughts, reset my attitude.
I got to have time when I haveto be silent.
What happens to you?
The times when you don't wantto speak and people don't
understand what's wrong with you.
Why are you not talking?
I'm not talking in this seasonbecause if I do, it's going to

(02:50):
come out crazy.
If I do, it's going to be aproblem.
So I'm choosing not to speak inthis season.
There are times when you have tolet your silence be a time of
rebuilding.
Let your silence be a time ofrebirth.
Let your silence be a time whenyou get yourself back together

(03:12):
again, when you're able to putthe pieces back together again.
I don't want to talk right nowBecause my speech will hurt and
not heal.
Let your seasons of silence bea time of rebirthing and
rebuilding and getting yourselfback together so that you can

(03:35):
heal somebody.
That your words are not full ofvenom, your words are not full
of pain, that your words are notfull of something that is going
to.
When you pour out, you'repouring out of pain and you're
giving the other person pain andyou're not giving them purpose.
You're giving them pain, you'regiving them hurt and you're're
giving them wounds and you'renot healing because you're

(03:58):
speaking from a place of beingwounded.
You're still speaking from aplace where you're hurt.
How can I pour healing into youif I'm speaking from a place of
unheal, of being unhealed?
There are times when we have tobe silent, but know in your
silence that something isworking on the inside so that

(04:18):
when you do speak again, it willbuild somebody up and not tear
them down.
You will be so healed that whenyou talk about the trauma that
made you silent, it won't comeout as being unhealed words.
It'll come out from a place ofhealing.
It'll come from a place ofrestoration.
It will come from a place ofrestoration.
It will come from a place whereyou're trying to help them go

(04:40):
through their trauma.
But I can't help you go throughmy trauma if my words are full
of infection, if my words arefull of still being wounded, if
my words are coming from a placewhere all I'm saying is
negativity because I'm stillhurting from what I was going
through.
That tried to shut my mouth,but I opened it anyway.
So if it's your season of goingthrough and rebuilding, shut

(05:03):
your mouth In silence.
Rebuild yourself.
Get yourself back together sothat the words that come out
will be sweet, the words thatcome out will be filled with
healing and will be where it canbuild somebody else up.
There are seasons when I can'ttalk.
Let me not speak in this seasonif what I say is going to hurt

(05:24):
you and not heal you.
It is your season of silencethat rebirthing and healing can
take place.
This is Robin from Robin's Nestthat rebirthing and healing can
take place.
This is Robin from Robin's Nest, Even in your season of silence
.
Just know things are gettingready to be rebuilt so that when
you do speak again, it will beeffective.

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