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The holidays can be one of the most stressful times of year. Family gatherings, busy schedules, entertaining, and the bustle and pressure of expectations around gift giving. In this training excerpt, world-renowned peacemaker and author, Marshall Rosenberg, gives frank advice to keep our compassion alive by shifting our thinking...

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Nonviolent Communication can be an important ally when life presents the types of stressors that exceed our capacity in any given moment.

Our capacity to meet stress in a way that is growthful, and ultimately beneficial to us and others, depends on our distress tolerance, our skills, and our community of support — among other factors beyond the scope of this article.

In order to reduce the number of situations that feel overwhelming or stressfully out of your control, you can increase your capacity to tolerate perceived or real distress.

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Happy holidays! Or for some of us, happy-ish holidays. Or maybe even scary holidays. The enMany years ago, I heard a drug rehab counselor say, "Detachment is a means whereby we allow others the opportunity to learn how to care for themselves better.” I felt confused and disturbed. I was a parent. My teenage child’s life and our family were being ravaged by her struggle with drug and alcohol use. Was I being told I shouldn’t try to stop her from using drugs and alcohol? That I shouldn’t try to protect her from herself or try to control her recovery? I had heard about this “loving detachment” before and it sounded like a self-protective form of abandonment. But, this counselor made it sound like a gift. How could that be?

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One of the many ways Nonviolent Communication (NVC) has blessed my life is that it has helped me learn to relate to an addictive substance user in a clearly non-shaming, non-coercive manner. This has been hard for me. I have experienced great pain loving and living with people caught in destructive substance use. I have been afraid to give up the option of coercion. But, I have persevered to learn and embrace an NVC approach because it appears to me that one of the primary emotions which drive addictive behavior is shame. People using addictive substances often suffer from a great sense of unworthiness and self-loathing. In fact, shame is such a disruptive part of their lives that the famous 12 steps devotes steps 4 through 9, half of the steps, to helping people resolve shameful feelings. I find that an impressive and enlightening commitment...

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One of the things I’ve learned from nonviolent communication is the idea of life as a practice. I invite you to practice without worrying about doing it right; just try it out and stay curious about what happens. Holidays can present us with many opportunities for practice because they can be so much fun… and also quite complicated. As well as lots of potentially triggering dynamics, there are opportunities for connection and love. What is it like to maintain who I am authentically and also look for connection during the holidays?

First I’d like to bring your attention to pace: If we’re looking to make room for new choices that move us toward connection, going slow can really help. When I go fast I do what I normally do. When I slow down I’m more likely to make a different choice.

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Spending time with family members over the holidays—the season of “good will to all”—often can be challenging.

Family gatherings may reveal a widening canyon of personal, political, and cultural differences; table conversations can halt in tense silence or devolve into explosive argument. Instead of gritting your teeth to get through the meal, here are six tips for more mindful conversations during the holiday season.

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For many, the holidays are less a time of joy and excitement than a season marked by provocation and disappointed. If you are on Instagram, Facebook, and other social media sites, it can look like everyone is having a wonderful time out there except for you. Even though we all know that what people typically post online is a highly selective slice of life, it can still create longing for the happy holidays that many of us never really had...

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For many, spending time with relatives over the holidays may be challenging. In addition to the love and care we may feel, family gatherings can bring up old hurts or expose painful differences. How many family meals have been marred by tense silence or devolved into harsh argument?

For me, learning to find balance, authenticity and care in my conversations with family members was a key turning point in my communication practice. Instead of dreading the holiday meal, gritting your teeth and sweating it out, here are six tips for more meaningful, healthy conversations during the holidays...

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Happy holidays! Or for some of us, happy-ish holidays. Or maybe even scary holidays. The end of the year can be a particularly challenging time for LGBTQ+ folks, with family gatherings peppered between travel, shopping, and the day-to-day social instability that queer people often face in their relationships, housing, and jobs...

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Honoring Our Feelings
Do you ever feel ashamed to admit how you feel about something? Do you ever say to yourself, “I shouldn’t feel that way”? Here’s the thing. Feelings aren’t good or bad, positive or negative, or even big or little. They are simply how you feel. If someone accidentally elbows you, you might feel pain. You might recognize and appreciate that the person didn’t intend to stick his elbow in your side, but it still hurts...

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