People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.

When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

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

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.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs