E106: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #33 "Bookend Your Communication When Sharing the Big Stuff"

33rd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is another addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re focusing on a new area: sharing, and specifically how we can improve our ability to share vital information and feelings with those in our support networks or medical teams so we have the open-minded communication and be heard fully without any external factors hindering progress by the usage of bookended communication. Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of sharing methods so you can communicate your wants, needs, information and feelings with those involved in your life, the methods of sharing in a confident manner that improve how others can absorb the information you share, and the reasons using a bookended communication method can improve how another person doesn’t feel judged and will reinforce the details share in future interactions. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Positive Bookended Communication Style on why it’s necessary to start and end conversations that you’re sharing major details with bookended kindness so the participant can feel they aren’t on the defensive but open to listening and learning, the ways you can incorporate supportive language to share your needs and feelings that will allow you to adapt and excel, and the rationale behind how your ability to share information in this way can actually improve how your information and needs are being met while simultaneously increasing the ability for someone to retain that information to implement in their support of you. Plus, founder Dominique opens up about a time in her medical journey when her healthcare team want to revert back to a treatment from her past that she experienced positive and negative side effects, and how both parties were able to use positive bookended kindness as the sharing method so a compromise and accurate solution could be made and everyone felt validated. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate