Boost your ability to be seen and heard by mastering communication skills! Dr. Vin Schroeter has distilled forty years of clinical practice as a somatic (body) psychotherapist into a deep understanding of how stress in the body spoils good communication. Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience and her knowledge of how the body works, she offers innovative techniques to improve your communication while lowering your stress. An early chapter offers assessments on listening blocks and measuring your assertiveness, while the rest of the book provides easy to understand exerises for how to listen to body signals, shift moods and communicate thoughts, feelings, wants and needs with assertive clarity.