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Mindful Reflective Journal Analysis

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For my mindful reflection journal this week I decided to work on my communication with my wife. My wife and I have been together for six year now. One of the things we do best is talking. Though we are great at talking, we have lost our way when it communications to positive communication. We tend to have little arguments, though normal, we noticed that we bicker more than we would like to. We decided to talk about our communication on our walk at Green Lake in Seattle, WA. As I mention in a previous journal, this is a place we love to go to. That being said, it seemed like the best place for us to walk and talk and not be in our home. As we walked we discussed ways on how to talk to each other by not raising our voices, throwing what I

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