Rich Villodas: How to Have Inner Peace, Even Now

Years ago, I learned an essential lesson that has application across every relationship: Becoming someone who can remain present to oneself and to another, especially in times of disagreement or distress, is one of the most important things we can do to become whole.Some have called this lesson self-differentiation. For our purposes, let’s call it calm presence. (By it, I’m referring to self-differentiation.) It’s to be the natural outflow of a life that is marked by humility and contemplative p