Anger: Relaxation & Cognitive Changes
Anger is a complicated emotion as we know, and no two people are affected by it or deal with it the same way. Luckily, there are ways to manage anger, such as creating space and moving away from the immediate…
Category Personal Growth
Understanding Anger
Poor anger. It’s kind of like the outcast of the emotions family, and often the most misunderstood. When we describe someone who’s angry, we say “She’s going ballistic”, or “He’s lost it”, or, one of my favourites, “He blew a…
Seeking Feedback
Seeking out feedback is something that we do quite often, but usually in informal settings such as at dinner parties asking how the dessert we made tasted, or inquiring how we look in a new outfit. Usually, the responses to…
Giving Feedback
We all recognize that giving feedback to others can definitely be tricky – even on a good day we may struggle with communication barriers, big emotions, or just not finding the right technique to talk to a specific individual. Although…
Feedback: Self-Feedback
My blog theme this month will explore the concept and practice of feedback – giving feedback to ourselves, to others, seeking it out, and how to use feedback to propel us forward. Many of us think of feedback as a…
Self-Confidence & Self-Assurance
In this series on self-confidence, we’ve learned that not only is it a multifaceted, sometimes elusive quality we aspire to have in the perfect amount, but that it’s also a key element to living our best lives and accomplishing the…
Self-Confidence & Self-Belief
It’s really hard to have self-confidence without having self-belief. Our belief in ourselves means having faith in our abilities and our own judgement, which helps propel us towards taking risks and reaching goals. Our self-belief has more to do with…
Self-Confidence & Self-Acceptance
Everyone struggles with self-confidence at times, it’s quite a natural part of being human. When we’re new to something (or a new relationship), when we make mistakes (we all do!), when reaching our goal seems impossible (it’s gonna happen), or…
Conflict Resolution: Collaborate & Problem Solve
Although we know that conflict is a natural part of life, it doesn’t diminish the fact that conflicts can take a lot of energy out of us and put us into situations (and moods) we just aren’t comfortable with. As…
Conflict Resolution: Compromise / Reconcile
Although we can’t escape conflict, we can certainly manage it, or at least improve on our methods to do so. We know that there are several ways to deal with disagreements or conflict, and they vary in the amount of…