"Yes, and" has become my new favorite phrase. It gives us permission to hold two - often conflicting - things to be true at the same time. You don't want to, I know. It's not the world we grew up in, where everything was nice and black-or-white, or for the really enlightened...shades of gray. But sometimes you actually do want two things at the same time, and one is not necessarily more right than the other. Sometimes two people can be equally right at the same time, in their own way.
If you accepted more than one conflicting feeling, desire, or idea to be true at the same time, what would change?
Disclaimer: While occasionally I include research and insights from my graduate classes in clinical psychology on my blog, I am not at this time a licensed therapist or mental health provider and therefore no content on this blog or website should not be considered or serve as replacement for therapeutic advice.
