Emotional Intelligence for Critical Thinkers
Feel like you might mess up your kids because you haven’t improved or healed your own stuff yet?
Is it possible to raise kids to be less dysfunctional than we are? I certainly hope so!
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In this article, I explore the essential mental tools for effectively dealing with snarky or hurtful individuals. These tools aim to disarm those who seek to emotionally manipulate you, leaving them puzzled when you don’t react as they expect.
Inspired by an email from a listener, I’ll share my own ‘communications toolbox,’ a set of strategies designed to facilitate empowering and non-confrontational conversations with negative people.
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What is the right thing to do or say when your adult child tells you about their sexual abuse?
In this episode, I read an email from a mom who recently learned that her adult daughter was abused by another child when she was young. I bring my partner, Asha, an advocate for the prevention and healing of child sexual abuse, into the conversation for an honest, heartfelt discussion and guidance for the mom.
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The emotional challenges you experience after breaking up with a narcissist usually go way beyond grieving the end of a relationship.
You can be stripped of your ability to see life clearly from that point on unless you heal.
In this bonus episode, I cover a lot of ground when it comes to dealing with what happens to your mind and body as you transition out of one of the more toxic relationships that exist.
Where does your self-worth come from if it isn’t instilled in you from your parents or caretakers? There is a path to a higher sense of self-worth and self-esteem. It may not be an easy path, but it does exist.
In this episode, I read a message from someone who’s father prefers his new family over his old one.
