"If there's going to be a healing in relationships, it's important to feel that the other person gets it," she says. "The admission of fault, including sometimes with proportionate remorse ... enables me to say, Hey, I've done my part here." The book is about being prepared and strong enough to express genuine guilt and remorse.
In this Episode, You Will Learn...
- The fundamental quality of recognizing the good in and having compassion for ourselves and how it's foundational in how we show up in relationships
- Recognizing tension in relationships and developing practices to help you determine what to do or say and when
- Asking yourself to choose harmony or truth in conflicts and how if you routinely choose one, you can end up with neither.
- Why it's important to admit fault and how it's a strength, not a weakness
- Using wise speech is about how we say something and it can have more impact than what we say
- The useful strategy of making small agreements that can improve larger issues in a relationship
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