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Sacred Speech and Silence: From the Heart and to the Soul
by Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. We spend much of our time talking about trivial matters and practical ones -- the weather, plans for the day, routine office events, frivolous gossip, the next technological...
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Listening to Ourselves
by Rebecca Z. Shafir, M.A. CCC. If we could listen to ourselves as we converse, we would probably be astounded at how often we speak mindlessly. We are so taken up with being the speaker that, quite...
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Ten Truth Skills: Essential Communication and Life Skills
by Susan Campbell, Ph.D. Honesty does not come naturally to most people, but it is a skill that can be practiced and learned. I feel a deep sadness when I hear people tell me how much they have been...
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Healing Human Communications: Taking the Risk to Hear & Be Heard
by Rick Phillips. We may think that because of the development of the ability to see and hear into the far reaches of space that we must be quite advanced in the field of communication. But all this...
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How to Listen: Ask... Then Listen
by Joyce Vissell. When you ask someone a personal question, do you sit back and listen to their response without any interruptions? Or do you fill in the waiting period with more questions and other...
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Being Heard: Taking the Risk to Speak Your Truth & Ask For What You Want
One of the reasons we often don't speak out is that we feel hopeless about being heard. It's probably true that you haven't been heard in the past — by your parents, siblings, spouses, or friends —...
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Can You Communicate with Honesty to Yourself & Others?
You need to be 100% genuine with yourself. If being completely connected and honest with the way you feel about everything sounds stressful to you, then I’m sorry. Sweeping things under the rug is not...
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Healing Words: A Healing Tonic for Relationships
Everyone has unique words they need to hear. These words are like a magic sound to their ears, for they have perhaps longed to hear them all of their lives. The important thing in our relationships is...
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Toxic Communication Patterns: Put-downs and Shut-downs
Put-downs are terms of disrespect, of ridicule and humiliation. I use the term shut-down for a form of communication that, instead of opening up a topic and encouraging debate and healthy conflict,...
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We All Need Support: Learning to Ask for Help
Assess how you currently navigate challenges: Do you immediately isolate, put on your armor, grab your sword, and head out into the forest to slay the dragon alone? Or do you enlist the help and...
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Do Not Underestimate The Power of Words: To Heal or To Hurt
Our words have a tremendous power to bring healing and strength to another person or to hurt in a very deep way. We should never underestimate the power we have to use our words for a positive effect...
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How to Speak Up about Anything: The I-5
Asserting yourself may not come as naturally to you as it does to others. I know, I know. You're saying it's not that simple to do, especially when emotions are maxed out, the topic is...
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Is Lying Acceptable? Is It Healthy? Can It Bring Peace of Mind?
I was raised with the concept of "white lies". Here's how I understood it. There were two kinds of lies: the bad, real serious lies (the ones you might go to hell for), and then there were the lies...
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Linking Up: Expanding Your Empathic Capacity
There is a natural tendency to synchronize, to link up with others. When two violins are located in the same room and a string is plucked on the first one, the string tuned to the same frequency on...
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No More Hiding Places in Your Relationships
“What’s wrong?” “Nothing.” How many times have you had this conversation? Something is obviously wrong, but it is not being acknowledged. Hiding places do not work in healthy relationships. Never...
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Men and Women Feel Things Differently: Guts and Hearts
Many studies have shown that women's brains are wired differently from men's so they can both feel and recall both positive and negative emotions more strongly than men. The crucial point to...
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Choice Conversations: Choosing Higher Ground
If your family interactions are tattering your soul, you cannot afford to indulge them. You may need to step away for now. Hopefully at some point you can reconnect on higher ground. For now, you...
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6 Ways to Bring More Empathy to Your Internet Experience
We asked psychologists, user experience designers, and writers what web users could to do to promote more empathic interaction in online places. Here's what they said...
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Millennial Bashing In Medieval Times: Same Old, Same Old?
In Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Le Morte d'Arthur,’ a character complains that young people are too sexually promiscuous. 14th- and 15th-century texts hold a lesson for the 21st century. Anxieties about “kids...
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How Loneliness In Older People Makes Them More Vulnerable To Financial Scammers
Fraud investigators have warned that people are being targeted by scammers who persuade them to invest their pensions in self-storage units.
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