Asking For A Friend with TalkDoc

#045: Fallacies (Part 2): How to Keep an Open Mind

In part 2 of our series on fallacies, TalkDoc along with her AFAF colleagues Teighlor and Meredith,  introduce additional types of fallacies. As they unpack these fallacies, you’ll learn about the role being rooted in your own values plays when fallacies come your way and the impact of credibility on the believability of an argument. 

As you become familiar with how to spot different types of fallacies you’ll be better equipped to keep an open mind so that you can focus on evidence and ideas vs the origin or people delivering the message.

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#044: Fallacies (Part 1): How to Stop Jumping to Conclusions

In this episode, TalkDoc introduces our new series on fallacies. This week we are looking at the fallacy of hasty generalizations. The team breaks down what this is and why it is important. As you listen with us, consider areas you may jump to conclusions or areas you hear people around you doing this. This fallacy can range from bad parenting advice to stereotypes on categories of people. Remember to consider terms you use, watch out for stereotypes, and as always, research, research, research!

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#043: New Year‘s Resolutions (Part 4): Spending Time Wisely

As an end of the year bonus, we’ll be releasing 4 short episodes on New Years resolutions over the next 4 days! Join us as we learn about what communication resolutions we can make to improve our relationships.

In this episode the AFAF team wraps up our New Year’s resolutions with how to reduce screen time and how to get off the office chair more often. Did you know the average use of screen time is only increasing year by year? Re-listen to our Episode 15 (“What the Phub”) for more detailed information about phone usage and relationships.  Explore with us how you’ll increase your in person presence, off the screen, in 2022. Perhaps increased daily movement can be added to your routine. How will you look up and look out this year? Apply small changes in your day to day and commit to those changes as you reflect on what relationships and communication skills you want growth in this new year.

Don’t forget our giveaway contest! Send us your holiday survival kit story for a chance to win an AFAF podcast mug! Email us at hello@afafpodcast.com or tag us on Instagram @afaf.podcast.

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#042: New Year‘s Resolutions (Part 3): Intentional Relationships

As an end of the year bonus, we’ll be releasing 4 short episodes on New Years resolutions over the next 4 days! Join us as we learn about what communication resolutions we can make to improve our relationships.

In this episode we’re getting intentional with Part 3 of New Year’s resolutions.  Saving money or spending more wisely is a widely known resolution. So how does it connect to AFAF? First we each pull a quote or poem that sparks this resolution. When we talk about saving or spending more wisely it connects to communication in that we can be selective about how we spend time our time and who we spend it with. This podcast is about communication and relationships. So how will you challenge intentionality in your time and relationships this new year?

Don’t forget our giveaway contest! Send us your holiday survival kit story for a chance to win an AFAF podcast mug! Email us at hello@afafpodcast.com or tag us on Instagram @afaf.podcast.

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#041: New Year‘s Resolutions (Part 2): Improving Communication Fitness

As an end of the year bonus we’ll be releasing 4 short episodes on New Years resolutions over the next 4 days! Join us as we learn about resolutions and what communication resolutions we can make to improve our relationships.

Fitness is one of most people’s top goals for the new year. But what is communication fitness? What resolutions can we add to our daily life to make us more fit and successful in our experience with others? It’s important to keep realistic goals—maybe we won’t do it perfectly every time, but there can be improvement. And of course it’s going to come back to practice and planning. What can also be helpful is to test your resolution to see if you’re improving.

Don’t forget our giveaway contest! Send us your holiday survival kit story for a chance to win an AFAF podcast mug! Email us hello@afafpodcast.com or tag us on Instagram @afaf.podcast.

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#040: New Year‘s Resolutions (Part 1): Losing Weight

As an end of the year bonus, we’ll be releasing 4 short episodes on New Years resolutions over the next 4 days! Join us as we learn about what communication resolutions we can make to improve our relationships.

Research shows that a lot of people make resolutions— mostly related to weight-loss and health. But what about our relationship and communication goals?

Have you learned some things from this podcast but maybe have yet to put them into practice? Let’s take the time now to be intentional and actually do the work. What bad habits can we lose to be our healthiest self in the new year? Join us as we do this with you!

Don’t forget our giveaway contest! Send us your holiday survival kit story for a chance to win an AFAF podcast mug! Email us at hello@afafpodcast.com or tag us on Instagram @afaf.podcast.

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#039: Family Survival Kit Part 6 - Wise Words from 2021

Are you a regular listener but missed some episodes along the way? Or are you brand new to AFAF and looking for the best of what you’ve missed? No matter who you are, we bet you’ll enjoy our recap in this episode of the guests we hosted on the podcast this year. Dr. Pamela Kreiser, along with Meredith and Teighlor discuss some of the practical wisdom each guest shared that can help sharpen communication in your everyday relationships.

So sit back for a quick tour of our guest episodes.  Then choose what to listen to again or for the very first time so you can put our guest’s insights to work for you over the holidays. Music by epidemic sound. 

This episode is also available in video format on YouTube. Click here to see and hear our conversation.

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#038: Family Survival Kit Part 5 - How to Manage Differences with Family

In this episode, TalkDoc breaks down the communication concept of distance versus difference. The team shares personal examples and survival kit tools for how to manage the work at the holiday table. Imagine your gatherings as you listen this week. When you sit at the table, does everyone think exactly the same on every topic? Probably not. So how do you manage the difference? Do you want to bring up topics that are polarizing at the dinner table? Is your goal to be right or do you want to create a welcoming environment of warmth?  Are you thinking of topics that foster commonality or the topics that you know will accentuate the difference? And when it’s time to speak up, have you prepared your response? Examine your goals and stick to them. Perhaps focusing on commonality could be part of your survival kit this year. As TalkDoc reminds us, this will take intentional planning and intention to have a different holiday. 

 

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#037: Family Survival Kit Part 4 - How to Handle Bad Behavior

We all have relationships we want to maintain long-term. But sometimes, especially over the holidays, bad behavior by others can test the limits of our goodwill even if it is unintentional. 

In this episode of “Asking For A Friend," listen in as Dr. Pamela Kreiser, with colleagues Meredith and Teighlor, discuss their own experience with and response to holiday bad behaviors. They share their own personal stories and how they drew on a number of the tools that have been unpacked in previous episodes to shift conversational gears from bad behavior to more productive outcomes.  

You’ll hear practical tips for dealing with repeated patterns, how to redirect others away from dictating what’s right for you, and how to use reframing to turn a poorly asked question into a bridge to a healthier relationship. Music by epidemic sound. 

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#036: Family Survival Kit Part 3 - How to Skip Guilt Trips

The holidays are a journey.  And for most of us one of the experiences along the way will be an encounter with guilt. Guilt that is either directed towards us or perhaps even (cringe) guilt we dish out on our own.  Either way it pays to plan ahead and be prepared with the gear we need to make sure guilt doesn’t become a detour that steals joy from the trip.
 
In this episode of “Asking For A Friend,” Dr. Pamela Kreiser shares some tools you can use to weather or even avoid the guilt storms.  She is joined by her cohosts - Meredith and Teighlor, for a conversation about putting these tools to work in your everyday relationships.
 
You’ll learn about heavy communicators and the role they may play in fostering guilt, what to do to combat it, and how to avoid falling into the trap of communicating guilt laden messages yourself.  You’ll also hear references to topics discussed on earlier episodes of “Asking For A Friend,” that are a jumping off point for a deeper dive on getting equipped to skip the guilt trip. Music by epidemic sound. 

This episode is now available in video format on YouTube.

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