There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?

Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.