“Empathy isn’t guessing how someone might be feeling based on your own hypotheticals. Empathy is courageously connecting with your own difficult feelings. Empathy isn’t trying to feel what the other person is feeling. Empathy is admitting that you don’t know how they
Cancer Support Community and my friends there are such a blessing. They gave me an opportunity to share a little of my story. Read it here: https://www.cancersupportcommunity.org/blog Here is a quote from my Q&A: “We
July is going to be “Quote Month.” Sometimes it will be my own quotes. Sometimes it will be someone else’s. And if you have any good ones to share, I’d love to hear them!!
I want to write a book. . . I think I’m finally there in my head and heart. 🙂 I have so many ideas swirling in my head, maybe you can help? Memoir? Workbook?
It’s been taking an enormous amount of work to show up. I can do hard things. I can do hard things. I Can Do Hard Things. The rest will just have to wait. Yesterday
The short version: You don’t really know anything about some thing until that some-thing has to be your thing. Mind your Hypotheticals. The long version: The hypothetical is an interesting construct. And then there
It’s been a hard week. Those oncology appointments wreck me. . . And today is the anniversary of my DIEP. That was a difficult day that started a very v e r y difficult trek. #cancersucks
Saying ‘thank you’ is different than being grateful.Saying smart things is different than being wise.Saying you don’t know everything is different than knowing you always have something to learn.Saying ‘I listen’ is different than
Some days just suck. Some days that suck can also be catalyzing. A powerful Both+And, indeed. This day in 2018: Funk I’m funky tonight. Can’t quite put my finger on what all I’m feeling.
Onco follow ups do a number on me. In my head I can stay rational (for the most part) but my soul and my gut…….those are a different story. In the weeks leading up