defensiveness in A Sentence

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    To decrease fear and Defensiveness;

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    Defensiveness: Are you closed off to feedback from your partner?

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    Is provocative and will only assure Defensiveness, denial and retaliation.

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    If they respond with anger and Defensiveness, try to remain calm.

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    Here are four ways to reduce the tension and Defensiveness that too often surround performance evaluations.

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    It's designed to decrease Defensiveness, tone down anger, and increase the chance that messages will be heard.

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    Let's use Defensiveness as an example, but you can substitute any behavior that's getting in your way.

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    Here are some guidelines that may help soften the cycle of accusations and Defensiveness- and the resulting isolation and loneliness.

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    Defensiveness- When attempting to hide a drug dependency, abusers can become very defensive if they feel their secret is being discovered.

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    They countered every positive thing I said about him, insisting that it was“Defensiveness,” and that I was idealizing the man.

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    According to Communications Expert Karen Friedman, though it is often considered a“power pose”“crossing your arms can also signal Defensiveness or resistance.

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    Fights and Defensiveness are usually fear-based, and deep down each partner is terrified of being abandoned, rejected, or seen as inadequate.

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    Looking back, it's clear to me that the degree to which I felt excluded was aided and abetted by my own Defensiveness;

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    Although Marie feels the rise of Defensiveness within her, she also feels like Allie is giving her the benefit of the doubt.

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    Of course, if criticism and contempt are already part of the landscape, Defensiveness may be the only way to protect yourself from abuse.

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    To listen without Defensiveness to the other person's anger and pain even when he or she is accusing you of causing it.

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    John Livesley, a highly respected member of the Personality Disorders(PD) Work Group, has now broken this fortress Defensiveness and enforced wall of silence.

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    Today we are discussing the importance of exploring with curiosity, rather than Defensiveness and denial, these difficult thoughts- specifically our own stereotypes and biases.

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    Gottman also came with the“The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse”(1. Criticism, 2. Contempt, 3. Defensiveness, and 4. Stonewalling) model to predict if the relationship can survive.

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    In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of Defensiveness.

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    Radical Transparency means being fully open to hearing your partner's feelings, wishes, desires, and differences and revealing your own to your partner without inhibition or Defensiveness.

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    But if you're in denial, you might push back against their insights, and that Defensiveness will send a signal to everyone else that they should be nice, not truthful.

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    Most people don't like being judged or told what to do, and when we use‘you' language plus directives, it's easy to arouse in others feelings of resentment and Defensiveness.

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    Most of us don't like to be told what to do, and when we use“you” language plus a directive, it's easy to arouse in other people feelings of resentment and Defensiveness.

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    If your spouse refuses to take responsibility for what he or she does, the Defensiveness will prevent you from ever discussing and dealing with any issues you may have in your marriage(regardless of whose“fault” those issues are).

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    The problem with disagreeing with another's point of view is that the process of connecting to each other's world and deepening mutual understanding is aborted and all learning stops as coercion and Defensiveness become dominant concerns in the dialogue.

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    One of those privileges is having come to a place where I can both express pain I have about others' actions without holding blame towards them, and hear others' pain, at least some of the time, without losing presence, without guilt or Defensiveness.

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    Recognize that your tone of voice, facial expression, and body language matter, and drop any Defensiveness that arises in you when someone points out the discrepancy between the literal meaning of your words and the message you're sending with your eyes, crossed arms or disrespectful tone.

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    Self-affirmation exercises are especially important before first or second dates, or before‘important' dates(e.g., where you meet the other person's friends or family for the first time), as those are usually the occasions in which our anxiety about things not going well, and consequently, our Defensiveness, tends to be highest.

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    Defensiveness also occurs when you respond to your partner's complaints with complaints of your own, such as when your partner lets you know they find it annoying that you leave empty shampoo bottles in the shower and you respond by pointing out that you find it annoying when they don't make the bed.

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