20. Communicating for Healthy Relationships

Episode 20 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  In this episode, we talk about the other three horsemen of the Gottman relationship apocalypse: Criticism, Contempt, and Stonewalling.  This builds on our last discussion of defensiveness. These aspects of communication are based mainly in research of intimate partner relationships, but do show up in other areas of our life. Recognizing them and choosing other ways of communicating can help improve our relationships and our connections to others or identify situations in which it Is best we make a gracious exit.  More information about the Gottman Institute can be found in many books and places online, but their main website is https://www.gottman.com As always, thank you to the wonderful Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being.  Come join us and chat, complain, or send in what mental health you would like to hear us ramble about!  Find us on Facebook, TikTok, and instagram at The Healing Pod  We are online at https://www.PeasInTheHealingPod.com   You can email us any questions, suggestions, comments, or memes at [email protected]   If you want to hunt down the bits and bobbles that have been cut out of our episode, join us for another live recording, or just to buy us a cup of coffee, come join us at https://www.patreon.com/TheHealingPod