Relationships
There is a box in the sidebar where you can answer the question, “What is your greatest difficulty with living life authentically?” This post is the third part of my response to a comment that was left there. The comment was: Speaking my truth whenever it will cause discomfort or worse with another, especially family. [...]
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In the box in the sidebar I ask the question: What is your greatest difficulty with living authentically? This is one person’s answer. This is the second part of my response to this comment. Speaking my truth whenever it will cause discomfort or worse with another, especially family. This leads me to live very INauthentically, [...]
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I have been asking you to tell me what troubles you have with living an authentic life or with self development in general. The following was a comment left in the sidebar box. And I think it is a very good one – it puts very simply a dilemma that I think all of us [...]
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A little while ago Daniel Brenton was kind enough to interview me on his blog, Gratitude Watch, about what I thought about gratitude. In this post and the next one I’m interviewing Daniel about what he thinks about authenticity. He shares in a very personal way about how he found his sense of purpose or [...]
In a lot of my posts I mention the importance of listening. In our relationships I think there is nothing that is more important. It is easy enough to learn how to listen well enough to make a major difference to our relationships. It requires few resources other than time and somewhere fairly quiet. So [...]
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It seems to me that there are some remarks that are meant to end a conversation: like, “Well that is just what I think (or feel).” These have their purpose – when we think the conversation is going nowhere or if we think it will just escalate into a pointless exchange. There is another group [...]
There is a way of referring to useless therapy – it’s “Handholding 101”. The implication being that all the therapist does is sympathise with the client – holds their hand. This may be a little unkind but I do think there is some truth in it. There really is some useless therapy out there. There [...]
When we want to change our life it can be helpful to have a map. However it isn’t necessarily a map to follow – more a map of what is going on. Awareness It is curious that sometimes just understanding is enough. We have times where we get an ‘aha’ and that is enough. This [...]
We don’t have any trouble with happiness and joy being seen as good. The other emotions can be seen as not so good or bad (usually this is put as ‘negative’, perhaps to tone down the judgement a little). Some emotions usually aren’t pleasant to experience, and many of us have seen the damage when [...]
Making a major change in our lives can be a demanding business. It can involve: Changes in our relationships Ending a relationship Starting new relationships Feelings of fear or even terror Nausea Tears Lots of work learning new things Why would we do something voluntarily that would lead to this kind of thing? We often [...]
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