Mentoring
Thoughts & Musings
My wife made an observation a couple years ago. I always seem to have a bully in my life. That was not my day-to-day experience, but sure enough, she was right. And it has been going on throughout my entire life. How could I miss it? And why did it keep happening? And how could I end it, once and for all?
Where did you get your relationship to love? Was it watching healthy people love and care for each other? Was it being present when loving communication was practiced? Was it seeing two people be responsible for their experience of themselves and another person and relating from there? Was it listening to people being in a relationship from a place of honor and integrity and modeling that for you? Was it observing a relationship in breakdown and reaction and then feeling what it is like to come back to being in a full, whole, safe and sane relationship?
Whatever you are up to in life, support can make the difference between success and just being average. But support is often looked at as a sign of weakness. Based on our society, you should be able to do it yourself! Though this is not true, it's one of many challenges on the way to success.
Let's look at the costs and payoffs of these two mentoring modalities…
