By Sally Kempton — 2009
Gossip can cause trouble in your inner life as well as your outer life. Here's how to rein it in.
Read on www.yogajournal.com
CLEAR ALL
Includes Frequently Asked Questions about how to communicate and cope.
1
Although being in a close relationship during the cancer journey can dramatically improve outcomes, the stress of treatment and the diagnosis itself can take a toll on couples, sometimes in a negative way.
To deal life’s challenges, we need resources. Rick Hanson explains how to find the ones that lie inside yourself.
Learning to express anger in a healthy way will help couples resolve conflicts, instead of letting them simmer.
2
Passive-aggressiveness includes the obvious passive, withdrawn or apathetic approach to relationships. This approach will spill over into all sort of adult relationships, from friendships, intimate partners, school and on to the workplace.
One trait of highly successful people is having a positive outlook on life, always moving forward, always learning – especially when it’s hard. We’re not typically grateful for the “worst” things in our lives. If we want to have a growth mindset, we should be.
The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.
There’s a gap between what you’re really thinking and what you’re saying. You’re distracted by all that’s going on inside and you’re uncertain about what to share and what’s better left unsaid.
No matter how great your life may be, you will eventually deal with disappointments, setbacks, failures, and even loss and trauma.
If you think your partner needs to lose a few, approach 'the talk' with caution. Here's what to say — and what to skip.