Telling the truth (even when harsh) doesn’t take away your ability to have empathy or have high emotional intelligence (EI). Actually, people who have high EI are much more blunt and honest, this building more trust.
Even when it’s uncomfortable, trust that what you’re going through is guiding you to what you prayed for. Keep taking the next best steps with courage. Keep expanding through it all.
I find mental “time travel” to be a very useful trick:
Go back 10 years and realize how amazed your younger self would be at where you are today.
Go forward 50 years and realize how much your older self will long for the challenges you’re currently facing.
Works wonders.
“If they wanted to they would” isn’t always true.
Lots of people want things.
They just lack the knowledge, the communication skills, and the self trust to follow through.