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185. How to Respond to Passive-Aggressive Communication (Without Losing Your Mind). Passive Aggression, Part 4
Passive aggression loses its power when you learn how to meet it with clarity, steadiness and communication grounded in your own values.
This episode gets right to the question so many people carry: what do you do...
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184. Transforming Your Passive-Aggressive Communication Patterns. Passive Aggression, Part 3
Healthy boundaries are part of any healthy relationship. And passive aggression often shows up when we are not setting clear boundaries.
Passive-aggressive communication may look small on the surface, but it creates...
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183. Passive Aggression's Hidden Cost: How It Erodes Trust & Blocks Intimacy. Passive Aggression Part 2
Passive aggression quietly unravels trust and closeness by hiding real emotions behind polite words.
Alejandra Siroka looks at how passive aggression shapes the emotional tone of a relationship long before anyone...
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182. What is Passive Aggressive Communication? Recognizing Hidden Messages in Your Relationships
Passive aggression hides beneath polite words and careful smiles, creating confusion and distance in relationships that crave honesty and emotional safety.
Alejandra Siroka begins a new mini-series by inviting...
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181. How to Be There for our Loved Ones During Difficult Times
When someone we care about feels overwhelmed or emotionally stretched thin, their communication may shift ā not because they intend harm, but because their inner resources are running low.
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In this episode, Alejandra...
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180. How to Talk About Gaza & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
When the world is shaken by war, violence, and human suffering, it can feel impossible to talk about it without creating more distance. Maybe youāve stayed silent to avoid conflict. Maybe youāve spoken up only to...
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179. Back to School: 3 Questions Every Parent Needs
The back-to-school season doesnāt just shift kidsā routines, it changes the rhythm of the whole family.
Alejandra Siroka invites parents and co-parents to pause and notice how these transitions impact their...
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178. Back-to-School Talk: Helping Kids Navigate Transitions
Back-to-school season often comes with shopping lists, new schedules, and endless logistics, but how often do we stop to think about what this transition feels like for our children?Ā
In this episode, Alejandra Siroka...
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177. Stop Sounding Like Customer Service in Your Own Relationships: Breaking Free From Communication Formulas
Many of us still rely on communication habits that took root when we were children. Maybe you avoid speaking up because youāre afraid of ruffling feathers. Maybe you say yes when you really mean no. Or maybe you fall...
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176. Your Unexamined Childhood Language Patterns Are Sabotaging Your Adult Relationships
Transform the way you speak to yourself, life, and others to open the door to deeper connection, stronger confidence, and real personal growth.
Alejandra Siroka invites you to see communication as more than words...
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175. Breaking Free from the Mental Spin Cycle - Why 'Being the Better Person' Backfires (And What Actually Works)
Trying to be the better person in a conflict might be the very thing keeping you stuck and silently seething.
Alejandra Siroka takes a closer look at what really happens when we avoid hard conversations in the name of...
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174. 3 Costly Mistakes We Make with Long-standing Conflicts
Long-standing conflicts have a way of taking root, not just in relationships, but in our own internal dialogue. In this episode, Alejandra Siroka unpacks three common patterns that tend to keep conflict alive for...
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