Healthy Communication

“Communication works for those who work at it.” John Powell 

COMMUNICATION CAN BE A GAMECHANGER IN SUCCEEDING AT YOUR GOALS. LEARN TO USE IT TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOURSELF, WITH OTHERS AND WITH FOOD! BECOME YOUR VERY BEST SELF!

This series of sentence stems is a great way to communicate to anyone about anything! Healthy communication leaves you feeling good about yourself and leaves you less likely to engage in unhealthy emotional eating.

“When __________________________________________________________________________
                     (describe the situation… what happened, what the person said or did)

I feel (or I felt) ____________________________________________________________________

(use a feeling word here… mad, sad, happy, scared, etc.)
 

Because ________________________________________________________________________.
                          (describe the reasons you feel the way you feel… “I was left to do your work,” or
                           “those donuts are too tempting for me at this point in my journey,” etc.)
 

I would like (or I would appreciate) ___________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________.
(state what you want… “I would appreciate if you could leave the donuts out of the house.”)