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Twenty Ways to Express Empathy
What this is
Empathy is a skill rather than a temperament, which is good news, because skills can be practised badly at first and still get better.
Ten specific things to say and do when your partner is upset and you have no idea what to do with your hands. Deliberately concrete: no holding space, no sitting with it. Sentences you could use tonight.
Inside
What is in it
The worksheet gives you phrases that name what your partner may be feeling, questions that find out what would actually help, and a short practice for choosing between listening and helping with the solution.
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Who it is for
For the moment when your partner is struggling and the right words do not arrive on their own. The phrases are ways in, not a script, and you only need the ones that sound true in your own voice.
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