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  • May 11, 2023

    Working With Emotional Defenses

    People misunderstand emotional defenses. They are given no literacy on emotional defenses through schooling and so when they go about their adult lives, encountering emotional defenses in others, they tend to develop a highly reactive attitude toward them. They treat an emotional defense encountered in another as that person’s “golden truth”. They suspend all disbelief… Continue reading

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    conflict, emotional defenses, negotiation, self-knowledge, self-reflection, steve franssen, steven franssen
  • April 24, 2023

    You Are Not Owed An Explanation

    As children, we need explanations from our parents. This is how we make sense of the world. Parents need to have built up a lot of patience before becoming parents, by doing self-knowledge and philosophy properly. They use this patience in the service of articulating the nuts and bolts of the world to us. If… Continue reading

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    childhood trauma, explanation, parenting, philosophy, self-knowledge, self-reflection, steve franssen, steven franssen
  • April 13, 2023

    Most People Settle Young

    The vast majority of people have made essential, irreversible compromises by the age of 21 that set them off of the path of full honesty. The most common of these compromises is in their choice of romantic relationship. They choose a partner who limits them in the same ways in which their parents limited them.… Continue reading

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    compromise, growth, self-knowledge, settling, steve franssen, steven franssen
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