Conversations from the Heart
A weekly, soul-nourishing podcast offering psychologically grounded, heart-centered reflections on human relationships, inner healing, and compassion-based communication.
Focused on live mini-coaching moments to help callers shift from reactive, domination-based communication to collaborative, heart-centered connection. Listen for new scripts for stuck situations, new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and guidance on how to approach these situations with empathy, self-awareness, and effective communication strategies. Here, we emphasize understanding both one's own needs and the needs of others, creating safe spaces for vulnerable conversations, and finding ways to express ourselves authentically while respecting others' boundaries.
Conversations from the Heart
#49 - When Belief Systems Collide
What do you do when you discover that a friend or loved one sees something in a polar opposite way to how you're seeing it?
Are you able to stay in a place of grounded, open curiosity, or do you find yourself getting worked up and activated, wanting to change their minds?
It can be very challenging to connect with loved ones when our belief systems don't match, or when our worldviews are colliding.
On this week's podcast, we tackle the hard work of connecting - with friends, with family - around hot button issues.
We discuss:
- 1:37 How can I connect with my parents who don't support my choices?
- 13:55 My best friend and I clash over Palestine
- 33:23 An NVC celebration regarding Human 101
- 39:27 Moving past the past
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