What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.
The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.
Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.
My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.
Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.