By Michael Mendizza, Marshall Rosenberg — 2000
People can change how they think and communicate. They can treat themselves with much more respect, and they can learn from their limitations without hating themselves.
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We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
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When we read the news, we might find ourselves overwhelmed with “non-OK-ness,” but Sylvia Boorstein says there are ways we can work with that feeling.
We naturally become defensive when our spouse begins to criticize us. We listen to refute or correct the inaccuracies, distortions and exaggerations that are inevitably there. The challenge is to listen only to understand.
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