Children should not hear
stressful conversations from adults — it is most definitely not the time.
Not exact matches
Stressful conversations are unavoidable in life, and in business they can run the gamut
from firing a subordinate to, curiously enough, receiving praise.
But whatever the context,
stressful conversations differ
from other
conversations because of the emotional loads they carry.
Based on years of research on how such false memories are planted, Loftus has found they can result
from patients undergoing types of psychotherapy, including hypnosis and sexualized dream interpretation popular in the 1990s, or when false information is slipped into a
conversation following a highly
stressful interrogation or event.
A few too many sips of coffee and a
stressful conversation can make my heart pound and my palms sweat, and before I know it I'm up all night, tossing and turning and trying to talk myself down
from another sleepless night.
Communication should evolve
from email exchanges to telephone
conversations (for security purposes, just to avoid the offhand lunatic out there, make sure you have the other party's number), and then to a personal meeting for a lunch or coffee - first dates always in the daytime, less
stressful for both parties.
Though conflict discussions have the potential to throw us into a negative place, ranging
from frustration to great distress, practicing the exercises we described on Monday may have an unforeseen benefit: Using new (and potentially foreign sounding) terminology may be a source of amusement in the midst of a
stressful conversation.