Hello! My name is Olivia Snell and this is my first time ever blogging. This blog will be filled with insights and things that I learn while in my Family Relations course and I am excited to learn and share it with others!
Welcome back to another blog post! This week is going be prioritizing truth and entertaining true thoughts and also about stress within the family. I hope that there is something that is a helpful takeaway for you and that you are able to learn something about the things I studied and learned about this week! To start off, I want to talk about our brains and a little bit about how they work. In our frontal lobes, that is where we use intellect, logic, and problem-solving. Our limbic system is more emotionally oriented, and it is where our "autopilot" mode resides. As we go down, our brain stem is what handles metabolic responses such as heart rate, breathing, blood pressure etc. Why is this relevant? Well, when we sense a perception of danger, our limbic system is what takes over. We turn to autopilot and tend to think more emotionally. Anxiety and depression are two things that we hear a lot about today and are very common now. Anxiety is actually a natural, normal, and ev...
Hello and welcome to my final blog post! This semester has flown by and it makes me sad that this class is ending. I have learned so much and gained so many insights as well as hope and excitement for my future family and marriage. The last and final topic this week is about divorce and remarriage. This is a topic that hits home for me because it is something my family has experienced the past 8 years. And while it has been some of the most difficult 8 years, there have been so many blessings and tender mercies from the Lord. I hope that there are some points that resonate with you as they have with me and that you learn something from this post. Why do people get divorced? There are many varying answers to this question but I learned that ultimately it comes down to people having a lack of hope for the marriage working out. When people choose to get a divorce it is a divorce of many things. Legally it is often done through a court, emotionally people end the relationship, s...
Welcome to another post! Today is going to be about the importance of communication and David D. Burns "5 secrets of effective communication." Communication is a vital part of everyday life because we use it all the time. Whether it is for work, school, and especially in our relationships with family and friends, it is important to learn to be a good and effective communicator. Without good communication, there is room for a lot of misunderstandings and often times causes problems that could have been resolved through talking and communicating about it. I want to walk through David D. Burns 5 secrets of effective communication and explain his techniques. 1. Disarming technique- This is where we need to find the " kernel of truth" in others' argument, which means finding truth in what they are saying. Sometimes when we are being defensive, it often looks more like an offensive stance. When we set down our defenses, we are able to disarm them by disarming ourse...
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