Understand Other People

Better communication through a better understanding of behavior

Beverly D. Flaxington

To Strengthen Your Relationships, Strengthen Yourself

To strengthen your relationships, and to find more peace and collaboration with others, be it work or personal, you have to first work on yourself.

Techniques to Help You Calm Your Mind

Worry, anxiety, depression and fear are serious systemic issues amongst the population. Here are a few techniques, many from hypnotherapy concepts, that can help you.

In a World of Fight

In order to shift this rampant negativity, each and every person has a chance to be the light and shine differently.

Forget Making New Year’s Resolutions

Whether it is a new year, a new month, your birthday, or just a new day dawning, you always have the option of making the change you desire.

Self-Care for Difficult Times

When it seems like you have the least amount of time to take it, self-care and focusing on yourself is probably the most important thing you can do.

Learning to Go With the Flow

This year has been a stuck year for many people. Learning to let go and go with the flow might be challenging. Here are some tips to learn how to practice the art of letting go.

It’s All About Your Perspective

In this increasingly divided world, it becomes more and more important to step outside your filters and work to find opposing or differing perspectives.

Birthday Musings: Life Is Learning

A milestone birthday is a time to reflect.

The Best Ways to Deliver Clear and Concise Communication

Having trouble communicating? Here are some tips to strengthen your skills in your personal and professional life.

Rage Is the Rage

Is rage ruining your day? Learn effective responses.

Ignorance Really Isn’t Bliss

Things change, new information arises, and your viewpoint might change if you knew more about what was happening.

When Someone You Love Is Negative Toward Others

Engaging with someone who projects extreme negativity toward others will most often result in having that person direct their upset toward you.

Managing Conflict in a Remote Environment

In these virtual times, it can be difficult to fully understand someone else’s intentions.

Your Most Powerful Underutilized Tool: Your Mind

Your mind is often underutilized because you aren’t focusing it on the right things, aren’t feeding it correctly, and aren’t using it the way nature intended it to be used.

To Find Contentment, Forgo Distraction

What if you were to become more aware of each step you take and how to enjoy the step itself instead of where it is leading you?

If You Believe in Freedom

Freedom is about choice. It’s about doing what you believe is right for you and your family.

The Only Person You Can Change Is You

It might be one of the biggest frustrations of human life that you can’t forcibly change another person’s mind or viewpoint.

Arguing with Someone Who Doesn't Want to Listen

If you are passionate about something, you want to share information and explain why it matters to you so much. Just be selective about where and when you do it.

The “Illusion of Help” Is Not Actually Helping You

Before you agree to embark on any self-help or change effort, be sure you are willing to clearly identify what you hope to see happen as a result of the process.

Stop Categorizing People to Make a Point

Labels are by definition judgments.

What I Tell My Daughter During Quarantine

My daughter will go on to do great things, but what a burden we have placed on her shoulders to ask these questions now.

The Art of Self-Care

While quarantined, there are lessons to be learned that we can carry forward even after the severe crisis has passed.

What Can a Virus Teach Us?

What can you do to strengthen your empathy muscle while waiting for “normal” to return?

Managing Life (and Your Stress Level) in Times of Turmoil

It’s important during these times to take care of yourself—mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Removing the Word "Balance" From Your Vocabulary

Why removing the word “balance” from your vocabulary could be the best self-help thing you do!

Moving from Control and Discipline to Acceptance and Support

Most people who have been emotionally abused start to believe it is them. It is not.

The Destructive Nature of Negative Self-Talk

Negative self-talk doesn’t just stay in your mind, it often leads to actions you might sometimes regret. How can you break the cycle?

New Year, New You

Research tells us that most people will fizzle out on their New Year’s resolutions by mid-February. How can you avoid becoming part of the statistics?

Preparing for a New Year

To truly make the shift you desire, you must change your way of thinking about the shift you need to make.

The Gift of Peace

What if this year you could give yourself a very special personal gift? It’s the gift of peace.

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