Apart from trying to piece my marriage back together I am also trying to learn how to be a better parent.
I found this on the ScreamFree Living website:
Quote: means letting go of our need to manage others and learning to focus more — much more — on managing ourselves. This means learning to calm our own emotional reactivity. Emotional reactivity is behind every bad pattern, bad decision, and bad relationship. Whenever we get reactive — whether by screaming, cutting ourselves off, overcompensating for others, or taking things personally or defensively — we operate out of our anxiety. And whenever we get reactive, we end up, ironically, creating the very outcomes we were hoping to avoid. ScreamFree Living takes this reactivity very seriously and stresses that the number one step toward creating the types of relationships we truly crave is learning to calm down.
Food for thought, as it definitely describes how I operate.
