Everyone Needs Boundaries...Including You!
Hear it Here - adbl.co/3To6NDu• Everyone has a right to have boundaries. Try to reframe how you think of boundaries—they are there to protect and prioritize what’s important, and not shut someone out ...
31 Jan 202317min
The Basics Are Not So Basic
• The best mindset to adopt in order to become a better communicator is the one that will best allow you to connect, meet your needs, solve problems, and express yourself. • Begin by asking yourself w...
24 Jan 202320min
The Human Body Is A Whole—Read It That Way
• Body language signals cannot be interpreted in isolation. Rather, first seek a baseline of behavior to help interpret a particular new observation – a baseline helps you identify incongruent behavio...
17 Jan 202329min
The Body Can Listen, Too
• Use mirroring, paraphrasing, or reflecting to show active listening. • Body language can be empathic too, and when your body mirrors another person’s, this is a way to show physical “active listenin...
11 Jan 202317min
Six Different Ways To Say NO
One of the most useful tools in the people-pleaser’s survival kit is the ability to say NO. There are at least six different kinds of no to learn and practice: the direct no, the reasoned no, the refl...
3 Jan 202313min
Body Talk
• Ex-FBI agent Joe Navarro has some tips for reading body language, and they come from an understanding that body language is inbuilt, automatic and ancient, and based on fight, flight or freeze respo...
27 Dec 202219min
Don’t Just Listen Actively, Listen Empathically
• To listen effectively and empathically, we need to let our egos take a back seat so the other person can lead. If we are sensitive, alert, and respectful, we can listen without an agenda. • Listen w...
20 Dec 202222min
Conflict Avoidance Is Actually A High-Risk Strategy
• People-pleasers can be conflict avoidant, but this is actually a high-risk strategy, and you may gather resentments only to explode later (“gunnysacking”). Instead, use “and” instead of “but” in con...
13 Dec 202216min
