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Communication Matters

Creating resilient relationships and families.

Social Life
How and When to Offer Help

Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.D. on July 2, 2024

Providing help can be positive or negative for the person receiving help as well as the helper. Here are practical communication strategies to consider before offering help.

Providing help can be positive or negative for the person receiving help as well as the helper. Here are practical communication strategies to consider before offering help.

Relationships
Love Actually?

Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.D. on February 12, 2024

If you think of love as only an emotion, you are missing out. It is in the actions and vulnerability of giving to another that we find ourselves.

If you think of love as only an emotion, you are missing out. It is in the actions and vulnerability of giving to another that we find ourselves.

Parenting
Parenting Daughters in the Age of Social Media

Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.D. on September 26, 2023

Social media use is especially important, and potentially harmful, for daughters. How do parents create successful guidelines and functional communication?

Social media use is especially important, and potentially harmful, for daughters. How do parents create successful guidelines and functional communication?

Relationships
Think You Are Having a Conflict With Someone?

Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.D. on August 3, 2023

Quite often, people mistakenly believe they are engaged in a conflict when they are not. Here are two characteristics of a conflict that must be in place for a conflict to exist.

Quite often, people mistakenly believe they are engaged in a conflict when they are not. Here are two characteristics of a conflict that must be in place for a conflict to exist.

Friends
How We Communicate Our Need for Affection

Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.D. on November 29, 2021

Maybe this year more than most, communication and connection matter. But we don't all have the same needs. How do we teach others how to behave towards us?

Maybe this year more than most, communication and connection matter. But we don't all have the same needs. How do we teach others how to behave towards us?

Divorce
How Do We Know What to Call Someone?

Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.D. on September 28, 2021

Have you ever blown it and called someone the wrong thing? Terms of address communicate and reflect relationship strengths and challenges.

Have you ever blown it and called someone the wrong thing? Terms of address communicate and reflect relationship strengths and challenges.

Relationships
Why Communication Matters

Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.D. on July 15, 2021

Communication is not just sending and receiving messages. It is the foundation of our relationships and it shapes our identities.

Communication is not just sending and receiving messages. It is the foundation of our relationships and it shapes our identities.