Learning (and Unlearning) How To Communicate

Guest:

Is your communication style a red flag?

It’s our favourite time of the month and Dr Emily Musgrove, our resident psychologist, is back in the studio to talk the talk (and walk the walk) about healthy communication.

The impact of our learning history (colloquially known as “baggage”) gets a heavy feature in this episode, as Ryan, Josh and Bridge unpack their communication styles, and how this has impacted their intimate relationships.

Dr Emily talks us through why the real challenge of communicating is not our use of language, but rather regulation of emotion, and gifts us a plethora of acronyms to practice at home the skills of effective communication.

Dr Em, always a pleasure.

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Chapters
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Communication conflict and Hannah Ferguson
10:19
How do you mostly communicate
14:57
The impact of our learning history
22:10
Interpersonal Effectiveness
27:41
Practicing getting it wrong to get it right
31:59
Do opposites attract
34:44
Respond rather than react
47:51
We all love an acronym
1:01:45
Dealing with unreasonable people
1:15:49
Breaking patterns
Transcript
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