LESSON 10: Feel Loved
Your Foundation Is The Heart-To-Heart Bridge
When you use the 1 Rule, you create a heart-to-heart bridge between you and your child.
That way you both feel loved at all times. You are loved, but you also FEEL loved.
You and your child get to feel it at all times! Imagine the blissful power of this…
Holding Space
During the first coaching session I gave on the 1 Rule I learned another important reason
the 1 Rule works so well in creating harmony between kids and adults. When you are
determined to be solution-oriented and the solution must be one all involved agree on,
you are holding space for yourself and for your kids. That means, that what you want is
accepted in your thoughts AND what your kids want is accepted in your thoughts.
You are being a model how to follow the 1 Rule, when you hold space for yourself and for
your kids, being determined that your needs get met, also. You are helping them learn
how to follow the 1 Rule, too.
Questions
1. Think of AT LEAST one time when you have held space for yourself and your child.
2. Think of at least one difficult situation between you and your child. How could you hold
space for yourself and your needs AND your child and their needs.
3. Write this out for at least one situation.
Bonus: The Girl Who No Longer Needed Therapy Because She Finally Felt Loved
One day I received a very important letter. It was from a girl I had given a book to
because she did not have the money for it right then. She had a 2yr old daughter and
really wanted the book. So I gave it to her. She said she would mail me a check as soon
as she had the money.
The letter was from her, including a check for the book. Although I was glad to receive the
check and I was glad she had been true to her word, her words in her letter were
priceless. First she explained how much she appreciated the book for the benefit to her
daughter and to her, but she also said that her mother had purchased a book. I
remembered that purchase.
She went on to explain that her younger sister was still living at home and that since her
mother applied what she learned by reading my book, her sister was able to stop going to
therapy because she finally felt loved.
Of course, her mother had loved her daughter all along, but the daughter did not feel
loved.