Wise Heart

LaShelle provides a definition of Life-Serving Boundaries relative to the framework of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue, connects Life-Serving Boundaries to spiritual practice, and identifies 8 key elements for saying no with care and connection.

LaShelle offers an understanding of listening, how to cultivate listening, and how to ask for listening.

LaShelle talks about how to understand the ways insecurity directs your behavior, offering security to others, and resources for anchoring and learning regarding emotional security. Emotional security might also be thought of as spiritual security.

LaShelle begins this episode by focusing on the foundations of love, growth and evolution, and contribution to life; and then talks about codependency, thriving, differentiation, care for others, responsibility for others, and responsibility for yourself.

Anxiety, fear, overwhelm, despair, resentment, and any form of reactivity quickly blocks your ability to be present with yourself and those around you. Taking care of your relationships with others most centrally means taking care of your relationship with your own experience.

The joy and challenges of gathering with family provide an opportunity to live your values in your most precious relationships.

Creating internal spaciousness through the practice of allowing grief and mourning is a central aspect of the capacity to offer presence in relationships.

LaShelle talks about presence as a foundation for thriving relationships.

LaShelle addresses a common trap with spiritual aspirations and wise wishes, and gives a specific and direct way to disentangle from that trap.

LaShelle expands on last episode's topic, directing attention, and gives strategies for applying this skill in dialogue. Support Wise Heart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/wise-heart