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🌟 DR ERIC MAISEL: 8 Tools You Need to Survive Your Crazy Family! | Overcoming Your Difficult Family

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Channel: Michael Sandler's Inspire Nation · 2017 · People & Blogs

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If you’ve ever struggled with your family, whether at home or away, then do we have the Overcoming Your Difficult Family show for you!
 
Today I’ll be talking with Eric Maisel, PhD, retired family therapist, creativity and life coach, and the author of more than fifty books including Mastering Creative Anxiety and a brilliant new read, Overcoming Your Difficult Family.
 
And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about 8 skills for thriving in any family situation.

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MORE ON ERIC MAISEL, PHD: http://www.ericmaisel.com

Eric Maisel, PhD, is a retired family therapist, a creativity and life coach, and the author of more than fifty books. He writes the “Rethinking Mental Health” blog for Psychology Today and the “Coaching the Artist Within” column for Professional Artist magazine and lectures throughout the world. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 
 

Key Topics:
 
1.     Did Eric Maisel grow up in a difficult family?
2.     How’d he end up interested in studying psychology?
3.     What did he find wrong with the medical model of psychology?
4.     How’d he end up becoming a creative coach? 
5.     Why did he write a book on difficult families?
6.     What are the 8 skills to thrive in any family situation?
7.     What’s it mean to be smart in a family situation?
8.     What’s the importance of asking “Am I smart about what’s bothering me”
9.     What’s the importance of being strong in a family situation – and what does that look like?
10. What’s a calmness toolkit?
11. What are a few top anxiety management tools?
12. What’s the discharging technique?
13. What’s it mean to flip the calmness switch?
14. What’s it mean to be clear?
15. What’s the importance of saying things directly?
16. What’s the importance of asking for clarification?
17. What’s the importance of paying close attention?
18. What’s it mean to be brave in a family situation?
19. What’s the importance of being present?
20. What’s the importance of resilience, and how do we become more resilient?
21. How do we upgrade our ability to be aware? 
22. How to visualize and work through challenging discussions?
23. How do we turn off productive obsessions to talk with our children and our spouse’s. 
24. How do we overcome difficult and dark sibling situations?
25. What advice would he have for parents to help your kids with difficult family situations?

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