Listen to Understand, Speak to Be Heard: How to Navigate Difficult Conversations with a Loved One

By Priscilla Rodriguez

In Listen to Understand, Speak to Be Heard, an audio course from Scribd Coach, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Priscilla Rodriguez advises listeners on best practices for approaching difficult conversations with partners and other loved ones. Prioritizing the goal of making sure you both feel heard, understood, and connected, Rodriguez’s course offers listeners different techniques for initiating difficult conversations. In the course, Rodriguez covers how to identify and reflect on your emotions; how to understand your triggers; expressing your emotions and constructing a clear message; how to listen to understand your partner; and more. She also shares exercises so you can begin putting what you’ve learned into practice right away.

Navigating difficult conversations with loved ones is one of the biggest challenges of our everyday lives. Listen to Understand, Speak to Be Heard will help you be prepared for the next one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Aug 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094444284

Priscilla Rodriguez

Priscilla Rodriguez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and the founder of Modern Wellness Counseling, currently based in Texas. To learn more about Rodriguez and her work, visit ModernWellnessCounseling.com.

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Listen to Understand, Speak to Be Heard

LISTEN TO UNDERSTAND, SPEAK TO BE HEARD

How to Navigate Difficult Conversations with a Loved One

PRISCILLA RODRIGUEZ

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2022 by Priscilla Rodriguez

All rights reserved

ISBN: 9781094444284

First e-book edition: September 2022

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Introduction

Hello‌ ‌everyone!‌ ‌I’m‌ ‌Priscilla Rodriguez,‌ ‌and‌ ‌this‌ ‌is‌ ‌Listen to Understand, Speak to Be Heard: How to Navigate Difficult Conversations with a Loved One,‌ ‌a ‌course‌ ‌from‌ ‌Scribd‌.‌ ‌Thank‌ ‌you‌ ‌for‌ ‌joining‌ ‌me.‌ ‌

Having a difficult conversation with someone you love is not an easy task. I’m sure like most couples, you and your partner have encountered many situations that you wanted to discuss with one another but felt unsure about how you should approach the matter.

There will always be times when you will have to have a difficult conversation with your partner that may cause some kind of tension or anxiety that will often make it difficult to follow through and finish the conversation. One of you may shut down, become upset, or feel inclined to change the topic to avoid an argument. You are not alone. This is the case for so many couples; we all get caught up or feel stuck and the end result is that no resolution is reached and, oftentimes, the problem continues to linger.

When these situations and