“It’s much more common, especially in the modern world, to never experience full-blown, life-threatening stress, but to never fully relax either. We’ll spend our days half-asleep and nights half-awake, lolling in a gray zone of half-anxiety.” – Breath: The New Science of
“It’s much more common, especially in the modern world, to never experience full-blown, life-threatening stress, but to never fully relax either. We’ll spend our days half-asleep and nights half-awake, lolling in a gray zone of half-anxiety.” – Breath: The New Science of
Ignorance is not bliss. Especially when it comes to relationships. In my last article I talked about how there are 6 Reasons Why People Communicate, and how not understanding them can create unnecessary conflicts. I want to expand upon that today with
In my last article, put a pin in it, I talked about how thinking someone is looking for help solving a problem when actually they just want to vent often causes a lot of unnecessary conflicts in relationships. While this is a very
Can you name them? “Communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationship a person makes with others and what happens to them in the world.” – Virginia Satir (Peoplemaking) My late friend and mentor Pete Gerlach, an extraordinary therapist, identified
America, we are told, is in the midst of an opiate crisis. But the word crisis implies a condition of instability and danger that has been walked into accidently due to inadvertent ignorance or negligence – not malice. The FDA were promoting
In much of the communication literature they say that we communicate to meet our needs, and that effective communication is communication that successfully meets needs. What they tend to mean by needs are things we universally tend to value like comfort, love,
The air in many homes and offices have 25-100 times the level of airborne pollutants than the air outside, even in cities! Toxic particles emitted from paints, cleansers and air fresheners and off-gassed from vinyl floors, carpets and furniture can be surprisingly
🚒 A fire truck shows up whenever there is a fire. 🏡 One night, the sound of a fire truck across the street wakes up a little boy. He climbs up to his window to see that the the house across the
Have you expressed your appreciation for the ones around you lately?