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Chapter 3 – Skills: The Safe Conversation Process

Coming up to Valentine’s Day – the tools are available in today’s world to have the relationship of your dreams.  So far we have seen the importance of safety. Your old reptilian brain has a 500 million-year track record, you are not going to change it. If you don’t feel safe you will protect yourself. […]

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Chapter 4 – Empathy with Everyone

“Finding a pathway to be seen, heard, and valued and to see, hear, and value others involves learning and practicing four skills.” (p.39) The four skills of the Safe Conversations Process include: The Safe Conversation Dialogue, Empathy with everyone, Zero Negativity, and Affirmations. Last week I looked at the Safe Conversations Dialogue. This week let’s […]

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Chapter 2 The Solution: How to Talk with Anyone about Anything

Today we explore Chapter 2: The Solution of How to Talk with Anyone about Anything. This is the newest book by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt. If feeling disconnected is one part of the problem and objection to difference is the other, what is the solution? Seeing, listening, and valuing the other person is […]

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What Conscious Partners Know: 24 and 25

This week, we’re exploring What Conscious Partners Know: 24 and 25 They need to acknowledge each other’s “otherness”, accept each other’s differences, affirm each other’s reality, adore each other’s traits, and advocate for each other’s reality and potential. They must differentiate before they can connect, so they accept each other as an “other” and accept […]

What Conscious Partners Know – 22 and 23

Continuing on with What Conscious Partners Know – Chapters 22 and 23 Connecting is sustained by intentionality, so they speak with a positive tone and use only appreciative or neutral words in all transactions, which helps them feel connected most of the time. The sign of a thriving relationship is how quickly partners engage in […]

Appreciations: Harville and Helen

I have said this before but I think it is worth repeating:  I truly believe the fastest way forward for any couple is to protect the Space-Between them. It is a real energy field, and you can tell, can’t you, when there is tension in the Space-Between? It is either tension-free or it is not. […]

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