Conversations from the Heart #101 - Road Rage & Spiritual Dojos: What Your Commute Is Teaching You
In this episode, we listen as Nate opens with a deeply human inquiry:
What can I do to feel more regulated, more considerate, and less internally violent while driving?
What unfolds is a rich exploration of road rage, internalized judgment, overstimulation, and the longing for care in a world that often feels aggressively indifferent. The conversation weaves together Nonviolent Communication, inner child work, trauma-informed insight, and the power of spiritual reframing.
Takeaways:
- Driving can surface deep, unconscious wounds about safety, visibility, and being cared for.
- There’s a difference between coping with a dysregulating world and designing a life that actually supports you.
- The wish to be “unaffected” is often a defensive maneuver to avoid overwhelm or pain,but true regulation requires learning how to metabolize life, not numb to it.
- “Right and wrong” can become tyrannical ideas when inherited from domination systems. Replacing them with “what meets needs” offers deeper integrity.
- Empathy begins by reclaiming your relationship with your own interior world.
- Everything (yes, even rush hour) can become a spiritual dojo.
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