kindness Archives - Rewriting The Rules

Reset Your Nervous System Super Conference

Now that my new book with Alex Iantaffi, How to Understand Your Relationships, is out in the world (the last book in our How to Understand Your… series),...

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Slow Relating

There is so much to do, there is so little time, we must go slowly – Taoist saying Something I’ve been reflecting on a lot...

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The master’s tools and mental health: We can’t get out of our struggles the same way we got into them

Something hit me recently: one of those things that must have been staring me in the face for so long but somehow I never saw...

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Mindfulness and social engagement: Kindness / honesty

This blog follows the previous one where I reflected on tensions emerging from a weekend retreat about the possibilities of social mindfulness. Kindness / honesty The...

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Collaborative approaches to relationship conflict

Yesterday I ran some training on relationship therapy for counsellors which involved exploring various different approaches and techniques. I was reminded of a chapter that...

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Kindness and honesty: Can we have one without the other?

I’ve blogged before on the tension between kindness and honesty: how, often, when we try to communicate honestly we sacrifice kindness, and when we try...

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