Communication is vital in relationships. Communication allows parties to express themselves and show vulnerability which builds trust and understanding of one another.
Many forms of communication can hurt a relationship such as responding passively, using sarcasm, insults disguised as jokes, putting blame, creating a sense of power dynamic, being loud, or being silent and avoiding conversation. Instead, one should take a minute, to calm down, collect their thoughts, go over the compromise they are willing to make and what limit they will not pass.
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Emotions drive our actions and thoughts (“Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT),” n.d.), as a result that affect our experiences and relationship. The reaction to emotions is learned from others, based on a previous memory, or based on the lack of identification and acceptance of emotions. Some behaviours based on emotions can be helpful or harmful (“Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT),” n.d.). EFT comes into play, EFT attempt to retrain negative reaction patterns (“What is Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT),” n.d.).
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Richard Schwartz came up with the concept of the Internal Family System (IFS). Through multiple sessions with clients, Schwartz recognized that clients had subparts to them. These subparts have characteristics and relationships with other subparts, creating an internal family system.
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Mental health and well-being are the key to the quality of life for every individual. More so, in today’s world, with these unprecedented times, the pandemic has disrupted the lifestyle of individuals and has left a lot of them struggling mentally, socially, physically, emotionally, and intellectually.
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