Beneath every behavior, there is a feeling.
And beneath every feeling is a need.
If, when we meet that need – rather than focusing on the feeling it satisfies,
We confront it.
We can then begin to deal with the cause and not the symptom.
Attributed in part to a quote from Ashleigh Warner
Everything we…
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