

How Empathy Helps
It might be easy to ‘poo poo’ empathy, as in ‘Empathy plus ninety-nine cents, what’ll that get me? A donut?’ But honestly, out of all my therapy skills, I think it’s what my clients hunger for the most. Heck, I think it’s what I hunger for the most! Unfortunately, albeit with the best intentions, people usually want to ‘fix’ us when we are upset instead. For-example, the day I learned that my first husband was serious about divorce, I tearfully told a friend, and her immediat