Com101 – Rate My Struggle (Part 2)
This article has been renamed to Emotionally, Where Am I At? (Part 2). Click the link to read it. This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents.
Com101 – Rate My Struggle (Part 1)
This article has been renamed to: Emotionally, Where Am I At? (Part 1). Click the link to read it. This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents.
Com101 – Emotions Are Real
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. I want to start this article on emotions with one of the most powerful realizations I’ve ever heard about humans. “Although many of …
Com101 – Conscious Practice
This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. Reading up on healthy communication and declaring, “from now on, I’m only using healthy forms of communication,” does nothing. The Greek poet Archilochus said, “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of …
Com101 – Unhealthy Behaviors
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. As I said in the last section, I strive to neither use nor engage with unhealthy or abusive behaviors. To do that, I …
Com101 – Healthy Vs Unhealthy
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. If we all knew what healthy communication looked like and we all knew the intentions behind it, I’d like to believe we’d all …
Com101 – Recommended Resources
This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. These are the resources that made my journey to communicating through emotion possible. I highly recommend all of them. Here they are in no particular order: The Gottman Institute which runs a plethora of studies on relationships, has workshops …
Com101 – Overview & Example
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. This series is a carefully curated list of tools that all come together in a specific order. It’s a roadmap with specifically ordered …
Communication 101
This series of articles is now available as a book! Here’s a link to my book on amazon. The original series continues below: This is everything I didn’t know about emotionally charged communication. Why? Because every human will eventually bump into someone’s traumas and triggers. Your triggers or their triggers, it doesn’t matter who, emotionally …
Your Triggers? Your Responsibility.
A friend of mine posted this image on Facebook and it sparked a lively discussion about what triggers are and what it means to say it’s “your responsibility.” Someone called it out as being a little cold and almost blaming others for having triggers. They painted a picture of having no compassion for someone who’s …