Being Blamed: It’s Hard But You Can Handle It with Grace
Oftentimes people are attacking out of their own hang-ups and it has little to do with us.
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In-laws: Ten Tips for Dealing with the Challenging Ones
In-law challenges are high on the list of distress to coupleships. It’s hard to have a resilient and intimate partnership if you have to deal with a resentful or interviewing in-law, often the notorious mother-in-law. Regrettably women seem more frequently to have mother-in-laws who are interfering and inordinately critical.
Discover How Humor for Women Differs from Men’s
There are exceptions to sex differences but certainly there is evidence of men, like Bob, and women, like Betty, having different humor tendencies.
Assertiveness Training: How to Improve Your Communication
Taking an assertive stance seldom fails. To avoid speaking passively or an aggressively discover basic assertiveness training skills.
Words That Change Minds by S.R. Charvet – Book Summary
Words that Change Minds: Mastering the Language of Influence by Shelle Rose Charvet.
Four Steps to Make Friends Who are Emotionally Safe
Ready to make friends or to begin dating? Here are four simple steps to make new and emotionally safe relationships. Yes, you can make new friends.
Talk2MorePeople by Tony Esteves – Book Summary
Talk2MorePeople is like a communication and connection bible with a mix of personal vignettes, research, challenges, exercises, tools, and resources.
Exploration of Sex and Gender Differences
Women are still under-represented in all levels of government and in corporation boardrooms. At the same time, women are over-represented in family shelters.
Ruin the Myth of ‘Helping’ with Household Chores
By knowing who contributes time to what tasks will help you better invite cooperation for sharing home responsibilities.
What to Know about Boundaries in Relationships
Boundaries in Relationships Most of us have had our personal boundaries violated. I have been asked in a job interview how much money my husband makes. The obvious answer was “None of your business.” Then there was the manager who patted my behind. Boundaries in relationships help all parties feel emotionally and physically safe. When […]
Healthy Boundaries Can Protect Your Values
Personal boundaries provide an effective strategy to handle many different external woes or adversities. Survey respondents quoted in my book, From Woe to WOW, indicated such. An outreach worker wrote, “I wish I’d stood up to her,” an office receptionist wrote, “I should have stood up for myself months sooner,” and a nurse wrote, “I didn’t make the world a better place by running away.”
Are You Asking Effective Questions?
When we ask the questions, we have a sense of being in control. Ask the open-ended questions to bring you resilient insights, understanding, and conclusions.