Comments on: Navigate Change Like a Nomad http://www.highlysensitivepower.com/2009/08/navigate-change-like-a-nomad/ empowering sensitivity through curiosity, creativity, and community Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:25:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Grace Kerina http://www.highlysensitivepower.com/2009/08/navigate-change-like-a-nomad/comment-page-1/#comment-6265 Grace Kerina Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:08:19 +0000 http://www.highlysensitivepower.com/?p=5421#comment-6265 As my husband would say, with the associated facial expression of regret and acceptance ... Ach, ja. There's that thing, isn't there. It's so darn hard to help people who like being stuck. This is one of my big lessons in life -- I continue to make my way up the spiral of this lesson (over and over again, gaining a bit of ground each time). At some point I learned (see, the spiral is working) that the person in the equation who's stuck is none other than me, since I keep trying to unstick people who don't what to be unstuck, and who's fault is that? This topic is brilliantly covered -- truly exceptionally brilliantly -- in the book <a href="http://www.highlysensitivepower.com/2008/11/book-how-to-live-with-an-idiot/" rel="nofollow">How to Live With an Idiot</a>, by John Hoover. As my husband would say, with the associated facial expression of regret and acceptance … Ach, ja. There’s that thing, isn’t there. It’s so darn hard to help people who like being stuck. This is one of my big lessons in life — I continue to make my way up the spiral of this lesson (over and over again, gaining a bit of ground each time). At some point I learned (see, the spiral is working) that the person in the equation who’s stuck is none other than me, since I keep trying to unstick people who don’t what to be unstuck, and who’s fault is that?

This topic is brilliantly covered — truly exceptionally brilliantly — in the book How to Live With an Idiot, by John Hoover.

]]> By: jo martin http://www.highlysensitivepower.com/2009/08/navigate-change-like-a-nomad/comment-page-1/#comment-6253 jo martin Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:44:55 +0000 http://www.highlysensitivepower.com/?p=5421#comment-6253 Thanks for the heads-up! I will indeed be forwarding this link to a # of people I know who are *not* dealing well with changes in their lives, mostly economic. To me, change is the only constant, to be embraced, welcomed and feted. To them it is something to be avoided at all costs. Their mantra? "It's not the way it used to be." No. No, it's not. And it never will be that way again, either. As convinced as I am that you'll say something that will help them, I'm almost as convinced they don't want help - they just want it all back the way it was. Sigh. Thanks for the heads-up! I will indeed be forwarding this link to a # of people I know who are *not* dealing well with changes in their lives, mostly economic. To me, change is the only constant, to be embraced, welcomed and feted. To them it is something to be avoided at all costs. Their mantra? “It’s not the way it used to be.” No. No, it’s not. And it never will be that way again, either.

As convinced as I am that you’ll say something that will help them, I’m almost as convinced they don’t want help – they just want it all back the way it was.

Sigh.

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