5 Shortcuts to Improving Communication with Your Partner (& Bypass Going to Jail for Strangling Him)
You adore your partner. Your partner is your true love, your one and only. Ahh. And– he (or she) makes you crazy. You’re not talking about a good crazy (you get that too). You’re talking about this-has-got-to-change-annoying-crazy. You’ve been...
Even More Insights for Keeping the Lid on Anger
Are you trigger-happy? Here’s a story my dad shared from his childhood: Setting: Early evening on the farm. Mother stirring pot on kitchen stove-top. Younger Dad (7 yrs. old) enters the kitchen. 7 yr. old: “Mom—what’s for dinner?” Mom: ...
Tips for Keeping the Lid on Anger
How do you keep the lid of an old fashioned pressure cooker from exploding and spewing food all over the stovetop? You turn the heat off. Your anger, like the hissing sputtering pressure cooker, can be cooled off too by reducing the heat which keeps it at a...
Giving Corrective Feedback –8 Ways to Deliver so People Feel Motivated and Cheer for More
Can I give you some feedback? That’s a question which creates a little (or a lot) of stress for most of us… there’s just something about the inherent threat to safety we’re wired to feel as human beings… or you’ve had a bad feedback...
Healthy Ego Alert– Three Ways to Navigate Feedback When It Hurts
Have you ever needed a boost to your ego after getting feedback? Ego– noun; A person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance. ‘He needed a boost to his ego.’ (Oxford Living Dictionary) I remember being introduced to the first check mark of my life in...Mary Franz LCSW, CEC, PCC
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