Connor Turland+App1+AppQ5

There was a time not too long ago this year that my older brother went through a period of intense psychosis. I believe that during this time, I had an experience of one of the great barriers to communication, an amplified scenario of two people holding and understanding two very different realities. I found myself, at first, entirely lacking the skills to communicate with him, in the place where he was at. However, with a little bit of time, I began to explore what reality might be like from his perspective, and found that we began sharing interesting, fun, and profound experiences. This ability to join someone where they're at (in more subtle ways than my extreme experience with my brother), while still maintaining yourself and your realities in the background is a very powerful tool for communication, with which you can overcome significant barriers, and have very connective experiences! Since then, things have shaped up significantly and I would feel perfectly comfortable with a call to my brother :)