Resources
Family communication
You can start with the one closest to what you need to look at right now. You don't have to read them all.
Conversations that connect: how to keep talking during the teen years
What changes in communication during this stage, and what helps keep it alive.
2 min read
Where to start talking: subjects and moments
Forcing a conversation about "important" subjects usually shuts it down. The ones that matter start with the everyday.
2 min read
Phrases that bring you closer and phrases that push you apart
What you say matters less than the atmosphere created by how you say it. The phrases that open things up the most and shut them down the most, and why.
2 min read
When conversation starts to shut down: how to open it back up without forcing it
There was no big fight and there's no obvious problem, but something changed. What's going on and how to get close again.
2 min read
Looking at the way I listen
Intentions matter, but so does the way you come into the conversation. A resource for taking a look at yourself as the adult.
2 min read
When talking hurts: how to stop the escalation
Some conversations no longer bring you closer: they hurt. Stopping them in time isn't abandonment, it's care.
2 min read
When I feel communication is lost: where to start
Feeling that it's lost doesn't mean it's lost for good. A starting point, and how to ask for help.
3 min read
To go deeper
Raíces is a space for looking at how people talked, and what wasn't talked about, in the home you grew up in.