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Com101 – Choosing To Get Our Needs Met
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! In my previous article, I talked about how we hide from happiness by finding ways to make it okay to not get our needs met. Next, let’s get back to communication and core needs. A lot of emotional conversations …
Com101 – Needs & Hiding from Happiness
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! Now let’s talk about why I slipped the word “happiness” into the title of this tool. I discovered Rosenberg included play, fun, and laughter in Nonviolent Communication’s list of human needs while Maslow did not. Then I had to …
Com101 – Burbol’s Hierarchy of Happiness
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! In my last two articles, I spent a lot of time talking about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and what’s missing from Maslow’s model. By now, I would expect everyone to be saying, “yeah, okay Danny. All of the Maslow …
Com101 – Needs Maslow’s Model Missed
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! I covered Maslow’s Model in my previous article, Com101 – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. One category Maslow seems to have left out that Rosenberg included in the book Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is: play. (See Com101 – Recommended Resources for …
Com101 – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. Remember, we are talking about the core emotions and signals that have their own indicator lights on our body’s internal dashboard. These are …
Com101 – Signals Are Unmet Needs
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. We’ve already talked about how emotions are our bodies sending us chemical signals that something is up. Aside from the four basic emotions …
Com101 – Stories Become Our Reality
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. Let’s talk about how we lie to ourselves about our feelings. We are going to pick this right up from the previous chapter’s …
Com101 – Emotionally, Where Am I At? (Part 2)
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. Last time, in part 1, we compared the alert lights on our car’s dashboard to our internal emotional dashboard with core signals that …
Com101 – Emotionally, Where Am I At? (Part 1)
Update: I just got my pre-order page on amazon to turn this series into a book! This is an article in the Communication 101 series. Click here for the Table of Contents. There are no “bad” emotions because emotions are neither good nor bad, they are just signals. Our body is trying to tell us, …