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Parenting and Anger

and let John and Stephanie guide you through it, step-by-step. In this course recording, you will learn how to: Meet your own intensity with compassion and find your way back to empathic self-connection by understanding basic brain functions such as the brain’s negative bias, the three motivation brain systems, memory and the spiraling of emotions. Meet your children’s intensity and gain more...
Receiving Appreciation With Grace

Trainer Tip "Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face" —Helen Keller Many of us struggle with receiving appreciation. We either belittle our accomplishment by saying things such as “Oh, it wasn’t that big of a deal,” or we let our ego expand by thinking that we are better than other people. Sometimes we show this by saying something like, “Yeah, these...
Help for Overwhelm

Reducing overwhelm requires you to reconnect with your authentic choice, be present and compassionate with what's happening, heal trauma, and interrupt the trauma response. Read on for ways that may help you reconnect with your choice, presence and more on trauma. Read this article Keywords: stress busy overwhelm authenticity LaShelle Lowe-Chardé Elia Lowe Charde
Courage

In one of its earliest forms, courage meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all of one’s heart.” We all seek the experience of being connected and alive. The difficulty is that to find the connection we desire, we must not be afraid of it. Courage is not as much about going off to fight dragons as it is about facing our demons, tolerating our feelings, and not reacting so quickly, in order to...
NVC & the Enneagram

Access this complete 3 session course NVC and the Enneagram can help you: Improve your relationships and communication skills Understand your dynamics and patterns, and de-mystify your struggles Unwind your “old emotional strategies” for meeting core needs Develop more acceptance and empathy for yourself and others The Enneagram is based on understanding that the temperament you’re born with...
Israel - Palestine, And - And

Amidst the Israel/Palestine war we see polarizing media portrayals and the battle for public opinion. Read how one person shares his deep, personal connections to the Israel/Palestine conflict, expresses the trauma and viewpoints of both Palestinian and Israeli experiences -- in a way that aims to transcend polarizations, hold compassion, and understand the complexity on both sides. Despite the...
Control

cut off from aliveness; and the more separate and disconnected, and ironically anxious, and depressed, we feel. The more we control the more we are cut off from empathy and care for others. With connection and aliveness come joy, peace, happiness, fulfillment, love, beauty, awe. But also what comes is the panic of vulnerability, the ability to be hurt, to suffer and die, to lose what we love in...
Love Trumps Everything

Trainer Tip "Look forward to the power of love replacing the love of power. Then we will know peace." —William Gladstone You’d really like the dishes to be done right after dinner, so you try to force your teenage son to do them each night. Or, maybe you’d like your employees to arrive at work promptly at eight in the morning, so you create punishments if they don’t comply. You think you have...
Identify 12 Essential Aspects of Empathy

a boundary when you are done offering empathy. You know when you are not able or willing to offer empathy. 8. Offering empathy often means being okay not understanding content when it serves the connection. You are able to let go of your own need for mental clarity regarding the facts and details of what someone is sharing if it doesn’t serve the connection. 9. Empathy is grounded in the...
Resistance

not supporting or cooperating with anything we see that is not about health, care, kindness and wellbeing for everyone. What is key is doing this with an attitude and feeling of empathic connection and unconditional care for the people doing the things we are resisting. Even more essential and subtle I believe, is a compassionate understanding of the materialistic system of separation and...