Oct 17, 2023
Listener question: How do I have a conversation with someone I disagree with when I feel passionately about something?
Annoyed, accosted, attacked, or acknowledgment – honoring people’s passions while setting our own boundaries
Tip 1 – root around your belief systems and consider how it impacts people
Tip 2 – use words to state our emotions as well as our thoughts
Define Zeal
- great energy or enthusiasm for a cause of goal (google)
- eagerness and ardent interest in something (webster)
- fervor, determination, combined with kindness equalling great devotion (urban dictionary)
- related to passion that is hard to govern
Tip 3 - What is the love within this? What is the fear within this?
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Tip 4 – reserve zeal for injustice to give power to the marginalized
Tip 5 – hate doesn’t help
- Ted Lasso – Be curious, not judgmental
Tip 6 – You can have boundaries
Opt out of conversations – place for avoidance and distraction, change of focus
Opt of relationships – what relationships in our life hold zeal in health and which are overwhelming
Boundaries with your own emotions
Resources:
Atlas of the Heart - https://amzn.to/46uBrRD
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