Emotional Development Is All About How To Grow Emotional Skills Growing emotional skills is far more important than any functional skill in achieving peace and calm and your relationship goals By Dr. Mike Gosling, Relationship Coach, Authority in Applying Emotional IntelligenceIf you’re like me, you focus most of your attention on personal growth. You know that developing emotional skills is priority number one. Thinking about career and promotion - That’s just a distraction.But I would venture to say most people are not like me. Most people focus on the functional skills - finance, banking, engineering, medicine, law - one needs to survive and be competitive … [Read more...]
Fight Flight or Freeze – Being Triggered!
The fight or flight response has got a new name. It's now called the fight, flight or freeze response Adding the word freeze is because often, instead of fighting or fleeing, sometimes we tend to freeze (like a deer in the headlights) in stressful situations Fight Flight or Freeze ReactionIn other blog posts I've been telling you about the fight flight or freeze response and how our different Emotional Styles - Reactive or Avoidant - can impact on romance.Reactive people are more inclined to be immediately aggressive (fight) and Avoidant people are more likely to be defensive or withdraw (flee). When triggered, people either - fight flight or freeze.I am talking about freezing or … [Read more...]
The Cold Shoulder
To “give someone the cold shoulder” is to ignore someone deliberately Yet giving your partner the cold shoulder can end up making you feel decidedly sorry for yourself - we feel guilty and suffer from losing one of our social connections when we ostracise a person Are you someone who regularly gives your partner "the cold shoulder"?The information about the avoidant emotional style I've written about in other blog posts is starting to interest you, right?Probably because it resonates, and you easily understand what I have been explaining.Yes, this is one of the most common issues in a disconnected marriage. Each one has a different emotional style. And it … [Read more...]
Anger Issues Arise From A Reactive Emotional Style
Do you feel angry or have anger issues a lot of the time? Anger is a normal, healthy response to a threat and may be used for a constructive purpose. Anger issues arise from a reactive emotional style and may lead to destructive thoughts or actions. Are you a person who is angry a lot of the time or has anger issues? Have you been waiting to learn more about the Fight (Reactive) type of person? Is that you? Are you married to someone who has anger issues, is often frustrated or irritated - someone who has a reactive emotional style? Someone who can explode without warning - like a "bomb"!Is it killing your romance?Do you want to know more about why they are like … [Read more...]
Five Love Languages of Gary Chapman
Learn How The Five Love Languages Can Help You Win At Your Relationship What can you do to fill your love tank tonight? Marriage and family expert Dr. Gary Chapman answers questions on the Five Love Languages. Listen to the video below in which Oprah interviews Dr. Chapman about this topic. Do you know what your partner's primary and secondary love language is? If not, isn't it time to find out? Often the way that you show love for your partner may not be interpreted by your partner as a loving gesture if they don't "speak the same language". Usually, the way that you give love is the way the YOU like to receive it. However, it may not be your partner's … [Read more...]
Love Lust Attraction
Your amazing brain... Love Lust Attraction and an irresistible cocktail of chemicals! When did you know you fancied your partner? What did that meeting do to your brain chemicals? Did you just fall in love? I Love Helen Fisher! She is an Anthropologist, not a psychologist, and simply describes what she and her colleagues discover in their research - love lust attraction. Helen teaches us about the feelings of "chemistry" we have with someone we feel connected to. And she is right! Our bodies surge with chemicals of attraction, and surge even more if our "love" is requited. Oh the wonderful experience of those attraction chemicals, we swoon with the … [Read more...]
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