How To Start Asking for Help When You’ve Never Done It

Barb Nangle
14 min readAug 21, 2020
Learn how to ask for help, even if you’ve never done it (photo credit: Gustavo Fring).

I somehow grew up with the notion that asking for help was not okay. In fact, I was the giver of help, not the receiver. It felt like a duty. When I got into 12 step recovery, one of the most important lessons I learned was to reach out for help from others. The process of learning how to do this, and why it wasn’t an option before, was very enlightening. I hope that reading this will enable you…

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Barb Nangle

I’m a boundaries coach who works with women who focus on what others think and neglect themselves. I've coached hundreds using my exclusive BUILD framework.