Reading “The Wake Up” by Michelle Mijung Kim has been powerful and informative. She shares so much great information. Her comment, “Many of us desire to have good impacts, but sometimes even our best intentions can bring unintended consequences of harm.” This results in fear to do or say anything but then harm is also caused by inaction.

Kim suggests a few things to do when you get called out for being harmful:

• Listen and calm your defenses.

• Apologize and acknowledge the harm.

• Express gratitude for the feedback.

• Make amends without expecting forgiveness.

• Commit to doing better and then actually do better.

• Get support for yourself.