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Lauren Taylor: Hi, my name is Lauren Taylor with Defend Yourself. Today we are working on self-defense. Now we are going to look at how to prevent harassment, abuse and assault. The most important thing that everybody is probably heard of is awareness. Awareness is the obvious things like knowing your surroundings, knowing where the exits are, knowing where you can get for help but also noticing the people what are their moods, what are they doing? What kind of energy are they giving toward you?
Another skill is acting confident. Now you probably fairly confident in most of your life but if you are in a situation where you don't feel confident when you are nervous or someone is bothering you, you want to have the skill to act confident even when you don't feel that way.
When you are dealing with someone, you know or whether it's someone you know or someone you don't know, if it's someone you know and you know that they invade your boundaries say in appropriate things, stand too close or whatever it is that bothers you or if it's someone that you don't know and you've got that yucky feeling that's how your intuition it work and you need to respect it. Everybody has had that yucky feeling in one way or another, you might feel it in different parts of your body just kind of jangly or something up in your chest or hairs on the back of your neck stand up or your breathing gets fast is important to respect that. Not minimize it and dismiss it but respect that notice it and take some action.
In order to take some action, you have to know what you want and for many of us that's the hardest thing. So a bigger life project is getting to know yourself but also in the moment take a moment, take a second and think what is that I want? Now since as we've already discussed most attackers of women and girls are people that we know whether they are intimate partners, friends and family just a coincidence is important to pick your friends and partners wisely. If someone doesn't listen to your opinion, doesn't respect you, doesn't listen when you say no, those are all early signs of an abusive relationship and you want to ditch that person.
Finally the last thing you can think about is taking a self-defense class, you know not everybody can do that so we are going to give you a mini self-defense class here. We've looked at how to prevent harassment, abuse and assault. Next we will talk about how to say, no.
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