Barbara Teicher It's How You Say It

Words are never spoken in a vacuum. They cannot be disconnected from their source. Whether read, sung, or spoken, our interpretation and understanding of words are necessarily filtered through our relationship to the person who wrote or spoke them. As Barbara Teicher points out in her book, It’s How You Say It, the “how” we say something, cannot be separated from “who” that says it. The critical foundation then of our interaction with others can be condensed into three essential characteristics: integrity, respect, and love. Integrity is defined as being “honest” or “whole.” From infancy, we are bombarded with information about the world we live in. Our perceptions are naturally formed by the reliability of the information we receive and