Making just a few small shifts in your communication patterns can be very powerful in connecting with others. Great communication skills help you:
- avoid conflict.
- get what you want.
- improve relationships.
- make it easier for people to hear you and understand you.
Verbal and non-verbal communication allows humans to relate in ways that deepen relationships and create connection. The better you communicate the more profound and fulfilling your relationships become.
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relationships go well and they’re distressed when they don’t.
In the fall of 1993, I was making a career transition from university fund-raiser to Marriage and Family Therapist when I saw my first client in a Los Angeles clinic. She was a beautiful, young, soft-spoken woman in despair over her relationship. While we sat together she explained how much she and her husband loved each other but for some reason, things were not going well. For nearly an hour, she shared her confusion and the drama of their life and then … I never saw her again. Ever. Today I think of her as an angel who inspired me to focus on working with couples.
