S4 Ep 14: Name your thing (here's why)

Cutting Chai Stories: Write copy that feels good

Finding new ways of describing things is ESSENTIAL, especially for a service provider or a coach or course creator who has absorbed years of learning, integrated that learning with her own experience and perspective, and condensed it to impart to her students.

Back in my early 20s, I would not have understood the need to name a particular framework or methodology. I can’t say for sure, but I might have thought it was unnecessary or EXTRA.

But now I understand that without the words to REFER to what you’re talking about, you can create confusion and a LOT more.

For example, if you’re Inuit, and you need a way to explain to your friend the conditions of the snow outside the village, if you simply do NOT have a word for it that BOTH you AND your friend understand, your friend might go out and be unprepared for what she might find, and that really MIGHT be a matter of life and death.

For the rest of us, maybe it’s not DANGEROUS to not have the words, but it hampers our ability to communicate.

Here’s another example of this. If you speak multiple languages, sometimes don’t you find that you have a word for something in one language that simply doesn’t exist in another?

As feminist theorist and coach Kelly Diels says, naming something is SUPER POWERFUL. Diels explained this really well in an email to her list. She wrote, and I’m quoting that email here,

“In transformative traditions -- movements, feminism, academia -- we name things.

We use language and even invent words and portmanteaus to make what was invisible, visible.”

Learn more about Kelly Diels here: https://www.kellydiels.com/

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