Stuff You Should Know About Therapy

Welcome back! Thank you for joining me again. With everything going on, I want to talk about stress. A lot of us are under stress in various amounts and for various times through the last few weeks and months. Our feelings, especially our negative ones, don’t just go away because we want them to. There is always a reason for our stress. Our job is to understand and give awareness to the stress we feel. I want to talk about when stress makes sense and when it doesn’t and what we can do when it isn’t helping us or those around us.

This week I will be defining what trauma is, how to identify it in our own lives, how to recognize when it is time to seek professional help, and as contrary as it sounds, how to have a positive outlook on the trauma that we have faced. Our trauma will always be a part of us, but that does not mean that is has to define us.

Today on SYSKAT, we talk about how we might use technology to communicate during a world-wide pandemic in healthy and unhealthy ways, and tips on how to improve our mental health.

In continuing this month's focus on communication, I want to talk today about having honesty in our conversations. While trust and honest go hand-in-hand I believe that they are very different. Trust shows that those communicating with us have a level on vulnerable to let us in to certain aspects of their situation. Honesty, as the other side of the same coin, shows that those communing to us respect our opinion enough to ask for it, regardless of what we may say. Honesty is just as vulnerable and as scary as trust is. When both are combined, wonderful, open, and very intimate conversations can take place!

In continuing this month's focus on communication, I want to talk today about having respect in our conversations. Not only giving respect, but also standing up for ourselves in making sure that we are also receive respect back from others. Without respect, healthy and open conversations will not go far nor will they last long. Respect, mutual respect, makes it so all those involved in conversations are on equal ground. As I mentioned previously, respect helps eliminate the Horsemen of Contempt. Mutual Respect lets us know that what not only what we have to say is valued, but that our time in being the listener is also import. Respect shows that we matter enough to those who are wanting to engage with us, as well as letting those around us know that they matter to us as well.

This week we discuss trust in communication.

This week we discuss how to strengthen communication.

This week we discuss what to do when boundaries fail.

This week we continue our discussion on Healthy and appropriate boundaries and discuss how to maintain those boundaries.

This week we discuss what health and appropriate boundaries look like in a committed relationship.