What does a wholesome relationship look like?
I've been asking myself this question for many years. I wanted to find out what it really takes to make my relationships more loving, more caring, deeper, healthier and generally as pleasant as possible. So I set out to find out more about it.
Along the way I noticed that “a beautiful relationship with others” and “a beautiful relationship with myself” are closely connected. That I am taken seriously from the moment I start taking myself seriously, for example. And that the sore points I run into with other people teach me a lot about where I have moved away from myself.
So this article is about meeting other people as much as it is about meeting myself. And about the question of how both of these encounters can become deeper, more genuine, more loving and more beautiful.
Along the way I came across some interesting insights that now form the basis for my own models, which I've developed to explain relationships as I understand them. I'd like to share these models, and my whole worldview when it comes to relationships, with you in this article.
In the article I describe…
- my “Dynamic Model”: how we can solve interpersonal relationship problems in the long term
- my “Care Model”: how we can live together in a wholesome way on a societal level
- my “Co-Creative Transformation Model”: how we can collaborate to shape a wholesome world.
In the article I share my personal perspectives on the questions…
- how we find out who we really are
- how we can become self-assured
- how we can develop a healthy and sovereign sense of self-worth
- how we can resolve conflicts sustainably in the long term
- how we build wholesome relationships
- how we move from scarcity into abundance
- how we can heal narcissistic patterns of behaviour
- what societal structures we can build to step out of the struggle for survival and instead flourish together
Everything I write in this article is based on my own experiences and assessments. Feel free to test my assumptions about the world for yourself and to question them critically.
Since I assume that my journey of exploring wholesome relationships will continue for the rest of my life, I expect my model to keep changing and developing over the coming years. So this article is only a snapshot. Through your online access, after purchase you can always view the latest version and download it as a PDF.
I wish you much joy with the article.
The article is written in German.
