After posting about practicing comfort in and dump out one of my colleagues sent me this great animation of Brene Brown, PhD explaining the difference between sympathy and empathy. My favorite part is where she explains how awful it is to say to someone "At least..." It is so natural for people to try to find the silver lining, but it is usually not helpful.
One of the concepts that get in the way of being an empathetic person is looking for someone or something to blame. Often people become so wrapped up in finding what to blame for people's problems that they can't empathize. Brene Brown totally nails it in the following video:
Who hasn't done it? Fascinating to look at it.
But, I'm not gonna lie I am still going to blame tamoxifen for a whole host of things. Maybe, I'll work on this a little bit more.
I love these!! Especially the empathy vs sympathy. I am the queen of awkward and saying the wrong thing.
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