My husband and I experienced a failed infant adoption a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to write this before I forget the details of what...

If there is competition at the root of your interpersonal relationships, I'd put money on it that you will have relationship issues. When...

"None of us live in an objective world, but instead in a subjective world that we ourselves have given meaning to. The world you see is...

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." -Rumi...

Recently, I've become very intrigued with French living. In anticipation of our newborn arriving, I just finished reading the book,...

"Peace is our gift to each other." -Elie Wiesel Is there a purpose to venting? This is a question I have been considering. I've asked...

Instead of saying "yes, but...", saying "yes, and..." may really help improve the connection in your conversations with others. How? When...

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -Eleanor Roosevelt...

I invite you to take a moment and think of the last "mistake" you consider yourself making. How did you respond to the person impacted by...

The practice of the connection request has been a difficult one for me to integrate into my conversations. The "dump and run" approach...

We explored interrupting skills in my NVC Trainer Development course and I've been thinking about it a lot. I created this...

We were read this story in my NVC Trainer Development program and it really resonated with me. This is from the book, "The Great...

A small rephrasing of the "I have to..." to "I choose to...because I value..." really embodies the self-responsibility that NVC teaches....

The deeper I have journeyed into my Non-Violent Communication training, the more I have come to understand this differentiation between...

To fully meet "my needs", both my personal needs and the needs of everyone else around me must be met. Everyone's needs matter.

I heard this acronym, W.A.I.T. in a Non-Violent Communication (NVC) class and it really struck me as something I needed to hear. I have...

The ego is trying to protect us and it has its own needs that is it trying to meet. Primarily, the need of the ego is acceptance.