How to Communicate Aggressively

When somebody communicates aggressively, you may not only be reacting to the feeling of threat in the moment, but also to prior experiences of threat. Maybe this person is just boisterous. They're not actually a threat. They just are extremely opinionated, whereas people in your past were hurtful. And that can trigger if you feel like that's happening again or you get reminded of somebody who did that to you. Even if they're not communicating in the same way, maybe it was a prior boss. Now you may, when you're interacting with your current boss, even if that boss doesn't behave that way, a schema in your brain is telling you, yeah, you might want