Coaching & Psychotherapy

Empathy Is An Emotional Muscle You Can Grow

Publicado el 7, oct, 2020 Actualizado 7, oct, 2020 Bienestar

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Empathy Is An Emotional Muscle You Can Grow

Lisa Bradburn

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Skills psychotherapy teaches use to improve connections with others

Margaret, a friend of the family, visited us this past week. While her presence started off as an annoying house guest, she became one of my greatest lessons on how to build empathy for others.
When you think of a loud, raspy-voiced woman, this is Margaret. Decades of heavy nicotine and liquor use and abuse have left their battle scars. Margaret ends each sentence with a high-pitched intonation at a frequency that hurt my ears. She also has a way of cutting off people’s sentences to ensure her voice gets heard. Margaret’s in her late sixties, yet, her partner Scott is my age; in his early forties. The couple moved into our home for a week to help my step-dad reinforce cement walls in his workshop. While it wasn’t my intent