What Happens When You're in a Fight?

If you find yourself in a fight and things are escalating, the first thing you need to do is just stop. And like my dad used to say, turn your ears on, stop to listen. There's a great book out there, it's called Crucial Conversations, Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High. It explains that what happens to our brain from a physiological standpoint is our brain gets emotionally hijacked when we're in an argument.