Understanding Communication Styles: What’s Yours? Part I

Did you know that behavioral traits affect communication? Learning about and being able to understand communication styles can drastically improve your relationships. How knowledgeable or skilled you are in navigating difficult conversations depends upon your ability to connect with other people.

Bridgette GottwaldJune 21, 2022communication, communication styles, understanding, affect, mental health, happiness, connection, meaningful, therapist

Relationships: How Do I Make Meaningful Connections?

To be able to find our way back to ourselves and each other, we must understand how our emotions shape our thoughts and decisions. If we don’t do this, we become “disembodied” from our own experiences and disconnected from others. Sometimes, a barrier in understanding this is that many people struggle to be held accountable without rationalizing, blaming, or shutting down.

Bridgette GottwaldMarch 18, 2022connection, meaningful, relationships, stress, acting out, feelings, emotions, language, brene brown, heart, atlas, human experience, words, labels

Relationships: How Do I Make Meaningful Connections?

To be able to find our way back to ourselves and each other, we must understand how our emotions shape our thoughts and decisions. If we don’t do this, we become “disembodied” from our own experiences and disconnected from others. Sometimes, a barrier in understanding this is that many people struggle to be held accountable without rationalizing, blaming, or shutting down.

Bridgette GottwaldFebruary 17, 2022pain, meaning, connections, friendships, relationships, power, client, body, mind, emotions, instincts, reactions, behavior, feeling, thinking, meaningful

Languishing: Have You Been Feeling Blah?

Have you ever heard of languishing? Perhaps it’s the dominant emotion of 2021 and you’re not alone in what you are feeling – according to the New York Times, “we all have a lot of symptoms in common right now.”

Bridgette GottwaldMay 27, 2021blah, languishing, mood, mental health awareness, therapy, therapy sessions, therapists, blog, pandemic, 2020, 2021, flourishing, depression, meaningful, challenges, middle child, neglect, blurry, suffering

Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand: What Matters in Life?

You’re probably wondering how on earth rocks, pebbles and sand have anything to do with what matters in life. It turns out that these elements and what they represent are relevant to mental health, too. Go figure! This lesson by a professor might surprise you and make you healthily reflect upon your own life.

Bridgette GottwaldMay 20, 2021rocks, pebbles, sand, what matters in life, meaningful, memorable, mental health, therapy, life, full, work, family, support system, engage, activity, hard times, develop

Success Addicts: How Do You Prioritize Your Happiness?

“The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful.”

Bridgette GottwaldDecember 31, 2020success, work and life success, working, burnout, meaningful, booze, alcoholism, persuit, depressing, alcoholic, spiral, downward, relationships, activity, love story, successful, relentless, goal, unhappy, little things, chasing happiness, measure

Good Grief, Part 1: Understanding the Loss of Loved Ones

Unfortunately, we are all subject to the whims of a randomly cruel universe. Whether it be a more “natural” death after ninety-five long years or a sudden and unexpected loss, they all hurt deeply in different ways. We become attached to the ones we love, and attachment is pain.

Bridgette GottwaldDecember 1, 2019grief, loss, overcoming loss, death, stages, meaningful, devastation, experience, stages of grief, messy, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, emotional symptoms, physical symptoms, discomfort, pain, immune system, aches

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