Hello listeners! In this episode, I bring together neuroscience and everyday life to present tips on how to communicate when you are feeling at your worst. Whether you are in an argument with your partner, a power struggle with your kid, or a disagreement with friends/coworkers, these concepts are universal and work in any situation. So if you feel like you are constantly in conflict with people, as life goes, take a listen!
Topics discussed:
- What we do when we run into conflict
- Neuroscience:
- Default Mode Network
- Frontoparietal Network
- Salience Network
- How to calm down and practice the embodied mind
- What is validation?
- How exactly do we validate
- How to place a boundary
Sources:
Yeshurun, Y., Nguyen, M. & Hasson, U. The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world. Nat Rev Neurosci 22, 181–192 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-020-00420-w
Marek, S., & Dosenbach, N. U. F. (2018). The frontoparietal network: function, electrophysiology, and importance of individual precision mapping. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 20(2), 133–140. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2018.20.2/smarek
Schimmelpfennig, J., Topczewski, J., Zajkowski, W., & Jankowiak-Siuda, K. (2023). The role of the salience network in cognitive and affective deficits. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 17, 1133367. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1133367
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