#4 Why It Can Be Hard to Find Your People, and Keep Them (5 Interpersonal Effectiveness Obstacles)

College Is Fine, Everything's Fine · Oct 4, 2022 · 37m · transcript

Finding your people in college isn't always easy. Keeping them? Sometimes that’s even trickier. On today's episode, we talk to our first expert guest, Professor Amy DiBernardo. She’s a licensed clinical social worker, an instructor at New York University and a former J.Crew junkie (emphasis on former).

We chat about the 5 obstacles we see on campus that keep our clients stuck in a whole range of social situations:

1) Not knowing what to do (lack of skill)

2) Thoughts getting in the way (worry thoughts, “what if’s”)

3) Big emotions (being too dysregulated to communicate well)

4) Indecisiveness…