#340 - Turn Conflict Avoidance Into Courageous Conversations
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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The Experience of Emotional Flooding in Relationships
When we go into a physiological stress, right, that fight, flight, freeze response, it is actually changing our systems like biologically and physiologically. Our heart rate increases, our breathing might speed up, you might feel hot or cold. But the other thing that happens when any of us are ever stressed is that when your physiology changes in response to stress or anxiety, our cognitions also change. We start becoming focused on threat or potential threat. So we are now kind of primed to notice what's wrong, threats, problems, issues. And this is just really important to know. It can make us more primed to experience our partner or the conflict itself as being more threatening, more dangerous
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