Special Episode: Tips for Living in Close Quarters
The One You Feed
Navigating Emotions in Close Quarters
This chapter explores strategies for managing emotions while living closely with family during challenging times. The speakers share tips for improving interactions, emphasizing humor, patience, and the importance of active listening in resolving conflicts.
Many of us are staying at home right now because of the COVID-19 pandemic and if you live with people, chances are you have had moments of feeling irritated, frustrated, or annoyed as a result of being cooped up in close quarters together. This special episode has all-new interviews with 5 previous guests of the show, each offering you tips to help you navigate the difficult feelings and situations that come with spending so much time at home with loved ones. The guests of this special episode are Susan Piver, Lodro Rinzler, Rosalind Wiseman, Ralph De La Rosa, Rick Hanson
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In This Episode, We discuss Tips for Living in Close Quarters and…
- That we are all subject to unbidden moods in these circumstances
- How to grow closer through experiencing the ups and downs together
- Resisting the urge to solve the “problem” of difficult feelings
- To be with each other we need to be comfortable being with ourselves
- Strategies to help you avoid snapping at your loved ones
- Turning towards your feelings rather than your thoughts
- How we’re face to face with our own minds right now
- Feeling what we feel without judgment and without a storyline
- What to do when you feel highly triggered
- The simple question we can ask ourselves before acting on a feeling
- What to do to prepare before having a difficult conversation with someone you live with
- How humor can help
- Ways to cultivate a warmer heart
- That listening is being prepared to be changed by what you hear
- A helpful structure for family or household meetings
- How we can prepare for difficult emotional experiences
- Taking ownership of our own emotions
- How to relate to our irritation
- Remembering the people you live with are suffering, too
- The phrase, “Like me, you, too, ____”
- How to reduce the way we take things personally
- The neuroscience of why tuning into internal bodily sensations works
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