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What's Love Got To Do With It? A Thousand Ways to Say "I Love You"

The impulse to say "I love you" is an opportunity to check-in both with our level of presence (eg. are we saying it by rote?) and also with what we really mean in that moment (eg. what are the needs and real purpose deep beneath the word "love"?). This can invite us to explore a deeper, more heartfelt way of communicating and being... Read this article Keywords: love I love you presence...
Celebrating Love

Celebrate love with Rodger Sorrow! Listen in as Rodger discusses a range of topics including: What is love? Religion and love How to handle unloving responses Sex as a need Experiencing the energy of the need of love This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leadership monthly videoconference. Keywords: beauty of the needs empathy exercises/practices feelings honesty needs observation...
Loving Someone For Who They Are And Still Making Requests

If someone asks you to love them as is, try wondering what contributes to their need for acceptance. Loving someone and empathizing with them, doesn't mean you can't make requests for change. Recall that your requests are about your needs, not about them. Understand that requests may not be met due to lack of resources or skills, even if the desire is there. Clarify how important the request is...
Getting Our Need for Love Met

Trainer Tip Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. —Marge Piercy “I just want you to love me.” How many of us have either heard this or said it to someone else? How would it look if your need for love was met? Would someone say the words, “I love you”? Would they buy you flowers weekly, or spend time listening to you talk about your day, or is it a combination...
Find Agency With “Falling Out of Love”

Falling out of love is a myth that can create a sense of helplessness and hopelessness. It attributes disconnect to some vague force that descends upon your relationship. With key questions and the willingness to find clarity, you can access agency in the midst of “falling out love.” The initial experience of "falling in love" involves a short and intense period of time in which you both...
Love as a Feeling and a Need

Trainer Tip We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. —Benjamin Disraeli Love can be both a feeling and a need in Nonviolent Communication. It can be seen as a need if we do something to meet our need for love, such as reading to someone, helping someone with his homework, snuggling, or helping our elderly mother comb her hair. For many of us, any of these...
Attending to Our Need for Love

Trainer Tip I’ve had a wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. —Groucho Marx Sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where your need for love is not met. Perhaps your partner expresses his love by helping you come up with solutions for your problems, but all you really want is for him to listen to you. Or perhaps your cat, which you brought into your life to love, just vomited on your...
Loving Our Role as Parent

Trainer Tip There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. —Agatha Christie Parenthood is a paradox. If you do your job well, your children leave you. I met an English woman once who told me that for the first twenty-four hours of her son’s life, he was her child. She savored that first day with him intensely,...
Fearless Loving and Living

Access this complete 4 session course Jumpstart your Mastery of Fear by using this unusual blend of experiential exercises, humor, empathy, original songs and stories, transformational truth telling, creativity and FRED (Frequency Resonation Energy Dynamics). Listen to this exciting telecourse recording and you will gain new information that will forever change your experience of fear. Learn...
What Would Be Possible If I Loved Myself?

Access this complete 3 session course Learn to have empathy for your harsh inner critic Scrutinize the core beliefs that get in the way of loving yourself Discover and awaken your Inner Beloved Master healing self-love practices, and Gradually begin to take responsibility for loving yourself! {attachment:all} Keywords: self love consciousness expression feelings honesty needs observation...