What You Bring To The Room Shapes Every Relationship

About this episode

This episode explores how inner motives shape relationships and emphasizes the importance of ownership over blame.

We explore how inner motive shapes relationships more than circumstance, and how to move from blame to ownership. We contrast sociology’s group forces with psychology’s personal agency, and show how unconditional love changes homes, work, and aging with dignity. • framing sociology as external forces and psychology as the energy you bring • ownership over family trauma and inherited patterns • therapy boundaries between empathy and effectiveness • resentment, fairness instincts and forgiving...

People in this episode

Host: Taylor Hartman

Topics covered

• relationships
• personal agency
• ownership
• family trauma
• unconditional love
• sociology
• psychology

Keywords

• relationships
• inner motive
• ownership
• family trauma
• unconditional love
• sociology
• psychology

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