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What Would You Change in Your Life Today if You Trusted Your Needs Would Still Be Met?

November 7, 2015 By Angela Watrous

I don’t know about you, but when I was younger, I accomplished a lot in my life through force, “willpower,” punishments and rewards, and deadlines (emphasis on the “dead” part, which is how I often felt at the finish line of projects and degrees). I’d been conditioned to think that coercion, from myself or others, […]

Filed Under: Needs, Nonviolent Communication, Warm Resonant Support

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