10 Reminders for Effective Communication

My dear friends, This week I want to talk about communication, and why I think many, many of our problems could be mitigated or lessened if we mastered it in an aligned way. The other day I was catching up with a friend, who was telling a story about how...

Mindfulness

5 Reasons Why We Over-Explain

Dear friends, This week, I want to talk about a nuance that I have noticed in my life, especially when it comes to relationships and my people-pleasing tendencies. For most of my life, I’ve felt that instinctual need to over-explain and justify my wants, needs, actions, and desires. From my...

Love

A Powerful Practice to Shift Your Relationships

Dear friends, I recently was talking to a friend about relationships, and just how complicated they can be. Friends, family, romantic, colleagues, and even interacting with strangers on the street, so much of our lives is impacted by our relationships with others. What I wish to share this week is...

Mindfulness

3 Lessons I Learned From Being Gaslit

My dear friends, Last week, Merriam-Webster released their annual word of the year, and for 2022, it is gaslighting. According to their article, “A driver of disorientation and mistrust, gaslighting is “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage.” 2022 saw a 1740% increase in lookups for...

Mindfulness

5 Ways I’m Breaking Family Cycles

My dear friends, Recently, I was having a conversation with one of my colleagues about the topic of ‘cycle breaking’. I hadn’t actually heard the term before, but as someone who researches and studies psychology, my colleague described to me the concept that a cycle breaker is someone who is...

Mindfulness

10 Tips for Effective Communication

Dear friends, I want to talk about communication today, and why I think many, many of our problems could be mitigated or lessened if we mastered it in an aligned way. The other day I was catching up with a friend, who was telling a story about how she felt...

communication

10 Reminders for Effective Communication

A Powerful Practice to Shift Your Relationships

3 Lessons I Learned From Being Gaslit

5 Ways I’m Breaking Family Cycles

10 Tips for Effective Communication

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The Practice by Barb Schmidt