How To Say What You Mean Without Being Mean
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Communication is something we learn. It is the exchange of information and ideas from one person to another or any form of expressing that can be understood. It was not automatically placed in our brains at birth. We are born with the capability, but we must learn all the components ourselves. The ability to achieve good relationships or bad ones depends on how well we learn to put it together. The ability to act on concepts we receive from communicating with others will determine the course of our lives. Every human activity such as marriage, work, parenting, supervision of others, governing—you name it— is dependent on communicating. Without positive communication skills, a person will fail at life's most important activities.
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Do you wonder why you get yourself into arguments that don’t matter, or you say things you don’t mean but sound really mean? Would you like to learn how to change that? In How to Say What you Mean without Being Mean, author Jan D. Thomas offers a Christian-based guide to help you better communicate with others. Thomas explores a host of issues and suggests ways to communicate more effectively and facilitate more harmony in your relationships—with God and others—while learning to understand and even love yourself better. How to Say What you Mean without Being Mean discusses: • what communication is; • the role of communication and ways to work at it; • learning how to communicate; • the results of poor communication; • reprogramming your communication process; • hearing and understanding; • the problem of pride in communication; • resolving conflict; and more. This guide communicates that as a Christian, you have a power within you to help you improve your relationships with others. That power stems from God, is God, and it is the power to love as God loves.
About the Author
Jan D. Thomas, a retired prison warden, has been involved in prison ministry for more than twenty years. He received an MDiv degree from Gateway Seminary, helped establish Crossings Prison Ministry in New Mexico, and was instrumental in bringing Celebrate Recovery to incarcerated people throughout the United States and other countries, as well as his own church. Thomas was the first national director of Celebrate Recovery Inside.