When the limbic system is in charge
As you learned in Chapter 1, certain conversations are challenging because they create threats to our limbic needs. In its efforts to protect us, our limbic systems can manipulate our behaviour. If we do not recognise and manage this, it can result in us behaving in unhelpful ways.
You have already reflected on conversations that your limbic system might have been telling you to avoid, that you now want to have. But it might be causing other behaviours too.