Your approach to boundaries may be helping—or quietly hurting—your relationships. This quiz helps you find out.

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Simply put, assertive communication is honest and direct communication. It includes statements of thoughts, emotions, beliefs and opinions. Assertiveness which is respectful of others is generally ...

My fellow blogger over at BehaveNet had an interesting entry in May of this year about a consultant coming in to talk to a psychiatric hospital staff about "physician burnout." The consultant ...

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Emily Rezkalla, a career coach from Vancouver, Canada has sparked conversation online about the balance between assertiveness and professionalism in the workplace. Rezkalla, who has been coaching for ...

Some of the most challenging conversations we have are with our own family members. All, too often, we can treat friends and acquaintances, even total strangers, with more respect than we treat our ...