Gabrielle Union opens up on How Being Honest Changed her Life for Redbook Magazine
Actress Gabrielle Union in the March 2018 issue of Redbook Magazine, sheds light on her fight to become the strong woman fans know her as today.
Speaking to magazine, the actress shares a few tips which she feels will lead women to a real, lasting confidence breakthrough.
Read excerpts below:
- Create a Happy Playlist:
She says: I started working with a life coach who asked me to list
things that make me happy, and one of my top three was imitation crab!
You’re not on the right track if you say imitation crab. So the life
coach started to ask questions: ‘What don’t you like? What annoys you?
Have you ever experienced euphoria?’ Examine those moments and you’ll
start to figure out who you really are.
- Right your old wrongs:
Part of my homework for becoming my best self is owning up to my b.s.
I have to acknowledge how I’ve hurt people and make amends. I started
with those closest to me, but there’s a line of people to get to. I was
at a Janet Jackson concert and ran into an executive I used to work
with and just had to say, ‘I’m so sorry.’ I included in the apology
specifics, so they knew I understood why I was wrong…. Then I listened
about the thing that I did, which I didn’t even realize I was doing.
I’m not saying this is easy, but it’s led to my being incorporated back
into some people’s lives. Not everyone will make up with you, but that
has to be OK.
- Shut down Negativity:
When someone starts gossiping, I’ll be like, ‘I can’t.’ It stops
people cold. They’ll ask, ‘What? What can’t you do?’ Then I’m like,
‘Listen to this. Yeah, I can’t. It’s sooo negative. Can we go back to
your kid shitting? Because that was funny.’ You have to do it with a
wink and a nod, but it shuts people down. I used to just do it if the
conversation was centered on a loved one—you’re not talking shit about
my friends or my family members in front of me. But now it’s in
general, because when you let that into your space, whether or not
you’re going to spread it or agree with it, your silence makes you
complicit in negative energy, and that comes back.
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