Allow your partner to vent with wild abandon. (Reading Time: 5 Minutes) “I feel like I’m trapped! I need to let off some steam! I want to stand on top of a mountain and scream obscenities like a wild woman!” These were the words I spat at my husband last weekend. The pressures of homeschooling…
(Reading Time: 6 Minutes) Ulterior transactions are all about us. You just might not recognize them. Yet. In this series’s first article, we examined the nuts about bolts of Transactional Analysis and how we can use it to understand and even improve our relationships with other people. In this article, we will focus on the…
(Reading Time: 5 Minutes) Getting people to do what you want is much simpler than you might think.
(Reading Time: 10 Minutes) How to use Transactional Analysis to understand human behaviour and improve the way you communicate with others.
(Reading Time: 5 Minutes) Everyone demonstrates passive-aggressive behaviour from time to time. This doesn’t make you one of the bad guys. It makes you human. It often happens when we believe something passionately but, for whatever reason, we don’t feel able to say it out loud. Instead, we feel pent up and frustrated. What happens…
(Reading Time: 7 Minutes) It’s safe to say that Narcissists are impossible to ignore; impressive, imposing, charismatic, charming, and attention-grabbing. You will mostly find them at the center of the room, surrounded by a legion of fans, all vying for their attention. They want you to adore them, admire them, and want you to want to…
(Reading Time: 6 Minutes) There is a famous saying: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. No truer words can be spoken about aggression and people who exhibit aggressive behavior. In these situations the ‘Duck Test’ absolutely works. You can see it a mile…
(Reading Time: 4 Minutes) The average person will spend around 30% of their whole life, and roughly 50% of their total hours awake on a typical working day, at work. Hence, it’s really important that we are happy and able to thrive in the workplace. Dealing with passive aggressive behavior at work is, at best,…
(Reading Time: 4 Minutes) Everyone dreads sitting down at the dinner table. A ridiculous spat about nothing over the breakfast table has escalated. Mum is not talking to Dad – she won’t even look at him. Dad asks his eldest son to pass the vegetables – ignoring the fact that his wife even exists. The…
(Reading Time: 4 Minutes) Passive aggressive behavior can be observed in many different guises. However, it can generally be described as non-verbal aggression demonstrated through other negative forms of behavior. Have you ever been really mad or upset with someone but not told them? Instead, you allowed this anger to consciously or sub-consciously leak out,…