NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.