‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.’ – Carl Jung This is part of why NVC works. It helps us to understand what’s going on underneath the surface – specifically, identifying the feelings we’re having, which point to the needs, which are what drive us.
I had an epiphany [a life-changing idea] a while back. I was sitting in my lounge room, feeling a little stressed, thinking I should be doing housework. It occurred to me to wonder WHY I was thinking that – what did I hope to get out of it? Hmm. Perhaps to avoid shame? So that
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People talk about self-empathy as though it’s just a thing you decide to do, then do it. And it’s not – it’s a learned skill (or at least, a process of unlearning!), and most of what I’d read in my life didn’t help me figure out how to do it.
