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Need Relationship Skills?

Relationship Tools Page

The healthiest relationships require communication skills and emotional intelligence. Videos to compliment this material: anger, str ess, work stress, relationship and parenting. Manage and heal your relationship within yourself before attempting to involve others.

Refresher for how to use the Map to Emotional Health

Relationship Tools, Communication Skills

Relationship tools include mental health, anger management skills and healthy self-esteem . Tools on this site help you understand healthy boundaries and establish reasonable expectations. Learn these basics of communication skills to build a solid foundation.

Tool #1 5 Basic Personality Types Helps you know yourself, understand others. (pdf)Download

Tool #2 YOUR 27 RIGHTS, It's not about "are you right?" it's about "do you have the right?" (pdf)Download

Tool #3 Good to know and Reasonable Expectations (pdf)Download

Tool #4 Trust Inventory (pdf)Download

Tool #5 Checkers Tool. Do you protect your boundaries? What are boundaries? (pdf)Download

Tool #6 Five Assertiveness Tools for Healthier Boundaries, Healthier Relationships 4 pages (pdf)Download

Tool #7 Four Tools for Healthy Dating Relationships (pdf)Download

Tool #8 Relationship accounts and love languages. (pdf)Download

Tool #9 Take Telka's couples pre-test to learn if couple's therapy is right for you. (pdf)Download

Relationship deep thoughts

Rights in a healthier relationship part 1
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Tool #10 Need help with difficult people?

New communication skills may be hard to learn. You might be minding your checkers, but what if other's do not? What if your assertiveness triggers their aggression?

How do you know if you can trust again?

For additional relationship tools to deal with difficult people, check out my new page.

Dealing with Difficult People

Disclaimer

Domestic Violence Helpline

Need safety and protection from relationship violence?

Abuse in LGBTQ+ communities

Lansing Women's Shelter Eve's House

Women's Center of Greater Lansing

Michigan Sexual Abuse Hotline

Siren: Eaton County Relationship Violence Shelter

Telka's relationship tools, resources and recommendations are not a substitute for mental health treatment or intended to be used as medical care. This site is not intended to diagnose or treat psychiatric or medical conditions. Always consult your own health care professional for the treatment of mental illness.

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