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Little Hints For Contributing To A Secure Bond With Your Partner

easier to recover from. Building and keeping a secure bond with your partner requires mindfulness and consistency: respond to what’s needed or supportive in a given moment; give them your full attention and affection in a spacious greeting; conveying care, consideration, and that they matter and are seen. Read this practice exercise Keywords: secure attachment trust conflict emotional safety...
Empathy And Privilege In An Interdependent World

than intent when we have more privilege, may theoretically lead to liberation. Yet, in practice it can reinforce rather than transcend power differences -- unless there's specific ways to focus attention and choice. Here, its important to transform expectations into working with willingness, and within our own terms and timetable. Read this article Keywords: empathy privilege power choice Miki...
Using Right & Wrong Language

Yvette Erasmus shares that we can translate or shift how we hear right and wrong language. We can use the cue - What is needed? I wonder what they are needing? This helps direct my attention to more relationality. Keywords: language of life needs consciousness right wrong language Yvette Erasmus
How to Navigate Holiday Conversations with Family

other’s behavior, we can choose how we show up. With forethought and care, we can approach interactions with more clarity, love, and skill. Read on for practices that include: Choose wise attention, ask better questions, practice deep listening, structure the conversation, know your limits, speak your truth, share your personal stories, be present and recall permanence. Read this practice...
How to Invite Shared Vulnerability

Shared vulnerability can build more intimacy, mutuality, being seen and heard, empathy, or community. Inviting shared vulnerability means earning another’s trust that you can consistently offer attentive, curious, and compassionate listening. Here are four strategies to invite shared vulnerability. Read this article Keywords: practice intimacy shared vulnerability mutuality trust listening safe...