Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.

Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.