Category: Blog articles
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The Parenting Mindset that Feels Better
Summary When I became a parent all I could think of was how I was not equipped to raise another human being. And my childhood was not the reference point I wanted. I didn’t know what to do, here I was pregnant having my baby while living abroad. So, I did what I always do,…
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Verbal Judo: Overbearing Unsolicited Advice (part two)
Summary First 4 Steps to Dealing with Unsolicited Advice If you’ve followed the verbal judo steps in the previous article and the advice giver seems invested in you following through on the advice then there are a few more things to understand in what’s being communicated. Definition of Overbearing I’ll take the example from the…
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Verbal Judo: Unsolicited Advice (part one)
Summary: The Collective Belief of Unsolicited Advice There are 2 types of unsolicited advice (from my experience). One is the well known, you didn’t ask for the advice but were given some anyway thereby, making it unsolicited. A step further is when advice is given and no problem is presented. It’s when you share a…
Tara Rama 