Tag: detecting bullshit
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Empathetic listening (is communication taboo?)
Yesterday I was meant to have my first phone session with a bereavement volunteer from Cruse but I somehow forgot about it and didn’t answer the call. She emailed me later so I apologised but straight away thought, wait a minute, do I want a stranger to demonstrate empathetic listening to me over the phone…
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A ‘free’ seminar
A few days ago I signed up for one of those ‘free seminars’ with a life coach. Those are very often prerecorded but this one was live. It was meant to be 90 minutes, but I lasted like 3. I find coaching industry fascinating – it’s a place where someone with a degree in acting,…
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Nazanin Mandi as a life coach
https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChIWTG0DxpO/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY= You may be aware I am interested a little bit in the art of coaching. I find it fascinating how some coaches manage to survive and even trive with all the nonsense they say. I think that tells us more about their audience that about them but I’m not aware of any research in…
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Emotional integrity| Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/childhood-emotional-neglect/202202/6-signals-relationship-lacks-emotional-integrity I keep having an impression recently that Psychology Today is full of bullshit. I just read this article about emotional integrity, which is the state where we understand our emotions and clearly communicate them to others, yet the article doesn’t mention alexithymia, which is inability to understand our own emotions. Autistics are very often…
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How do we define success?
I found this article while looking for some information about how to be authentic. The article states that our society measures success by the amount of savings one have. Psychology Today is an American website so possibly things are different over there? From what I see, British society measures success by the amount of debt…
Autistic and me 