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Criticism Is the Toxic Habit that Can Slowly Ruin Your Relationship

By Kelsey Borresen — 2019

Experts say this common communication issue can push couples apart.

Read on www.huffpost.com

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Pandemic to Politics: Adam Grant on How to Debate Someone With Opposing Views

In our world of tribalism and echo chambers, is it possible to unlearn firmly held beliefs and opinions? Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist who explores how to navigate discussions with people who hold opposing views.

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Adam Grant
2021
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How Can You Have More Power By Being Non-Defensive?

A short talk on how shift from ways of using power in our interactions that are defensive and lead to power struggle to gaining far greater power by using non-defensive communication skills.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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04:33

Why Can’t We Think Straight When We Get Defensive?

Defensiveness lives in our bodies; It’s not just a matter of controlling ourselves; the minute we feel any kind of threat it takes over. So how to we get rid of it?

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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How Can Simple Curious Questions Have Such Disarming Power?

We are used to asking questions in ways that convey judgment and/or are interrogating or entrapping. Much of the body language and tone we use is unconscious. To be real, a question needs to be based on pure curiosity, but it's easier said than done.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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Six Patterns of Defensive Communication: Sharon Strand Ellison

Sharon Strand Ellison, the author of Taking the War Out of Our Words, is a pioneer in the field of eliminating defensiveness. An international communication consultant and award-winning speaker, Sharon is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Powerful Non-Defensive Communication.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2017
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Taking the War Out of Our Words: The Art of Powerful Non-Defensive Communication

Whether we are dealing with a rude clerk, our child saying, “That’s not fair!,” our spouse ignoring us, or an uncooperative co-worker, in our struggle to respond effectively, we often become defensive—sometimes without even realizing it.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2025
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Thubten Chodron’s Wonderful Dhamma Talk

Venerable Thubten Chodron speaking on Bodhicitta and relationships.

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Thubten Chodron
2011
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Blending Families: Make the Marriage a Priority

You may think that your children should be the highest priority in your new relationship, but it has to be the marriage. If your kids don’t see this marriage as a relationship that will last then they will never accept this new change.

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2016
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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates.

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Jancee Dunn
2025
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How to Meet Broken Hearts and Longings—Jeff Foster

Author/teacher Jeff Foster shares how to mindfully meet a broken heart, honour it, breathe into it, allow blocked energy to move. How to bring love and acceptance to present-moment feelings of fear, sadness and longing.

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Jeff Foster
2015
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Criticism and Rejection