Compassionate Response: Don and First Responder Ralph

Fr. Nathan discusses the Compassionate Responses from The story of Don and First Responder Ralph. -No Judgment about clothing or appearance or about valuing one’s own looks. -He was allowed to be angry as deeply and for as long as he pleased. -Very little talk therapy. He couldn’t hear anything over the noise of his own red-hot anger. -Experienced a dawning; he heard us as pleasant tones and fragments of attractive conversation. -College “foolishness”: being “branded like a slave.” Tha...