Compassion for Your Addictions Holds the Key to Lasting Change

Compassion for Your Addictions

Examining our addictions can help us to get more in touch with our needs - that which connects us with life.  

Feelings and needs are at the heart of Nonviolent Communication (NVC).  Needs are what connect us with life - with our life-force energy. 

Go here for this post by NVC Certified Trainer Ceri Buckmaster:  Compassion for Your Addictions Holds the Key to Lasting Change.  

What have you learned from examining your addictions?  Please post below.  

Plus go here for Ceri Buckmaster on her work with Extinction Rebellion:  Allowing Something to Flourish:  Supporting Nonviolent Social Action!  

Go here for more from the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence 2019.  

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The Basics of Nonviolent Communication 1.6

Continuing this series of videos with Marshall Rosenberg about the basics of NVC.

When we have our "giraffe" ears on, we hear everything anyone says as giraffe speech.

Nobody can make us do anything.  We always have a choice. 

Go here for part 1.1.

Go here for part 1.2.

Go here for part 1.3.

Go here for part 1.4. 

Go here for part 1.5.

See also:  Transform Your Life with Nonviolent Communication.

And go here for the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolencee 2018.

The Basics of Nonviolent Communication 1.5

Continuing this series of videos with Marshall Rosenberg about NVC.

In NVC, when we judge, we judge whether needs are being met.  Needs are what connects us with life, with the life force energy, and NVC is the language of life.

We need to express our feelings, but our feelings are not dependent on the actions of others.  They are caused by our needs, either met or unmet. 

Go here for part 1.4.

See also:  Transform Your Life with Nonviolent Communication.

And go here for the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolencee 2018.