In relationships we can do a lot to enhance how we are relating just by spending time on our relationship with ourselves, learning about ourselves, and practicing and growing new ways of being. At the same time, we may have some enduring feelings and places where we get activated in relationship with others. In these moments, we may need to call on the capacity of the human brain and mind to hold ourselves and others with a gentler-mannered witness, a witness that has compassion for the parts that remain painful and hard. What's one thing your inner witness tells you with compassion?
[image description: A heart sits cross-legged with arms resting on its knees and palms open. The heart is surrounded by a bubble with hearts along the boundary. Text reads: "I've been working really hard on myself and sometimes I'm still sad about the ways you are with me."]
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