Competence and Connection

Competence and Connection

Competence “Is that the right lawn fertilizer for this time of year?” It was a fairly neutral, innocuous question my wife asked me. What was revealing was how I responded to it. Not outwardly, only inwardly. Dorrie knows enough about fertilizer to know that those...
Communication Habits to Break

Communication Habits to Break

Communication Habits to Break by Ramon Presson, PhD, LMFT Overgeneralization: The use of words like always, never, nothing, everything, anything. Sarcasm: Put-downs mistakenly believed by the sender to be clever. Mocking: Verbal mocking is similar to sarcasm....