There Is No Good Card for This : What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love

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Malletts Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Self-Help / Crowe, Kelsey	4-week checkout	Due 05-24-2024

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Read by Xe Sands.
The creator of the viral hit "Empathy Cards" teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visually stunning and groundbreaking illustrated guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.When someone you know is hurting, you want to let her know that you care. But many people don?t know what words to use?or are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. This thoughtful, instructive guide, from empathy expert Dr. Kelsey Crowe and greeting card maverick Emily McDowell, blends well-researched, actionable advice with the no-nonsense humor and the signature illustration style of McDowell's immensely popular Empathy Cards, to help you feel confident in connecting with anyone experiencing grief, loss, illness, or any other difficult situation.Written in a how-to, relatable, we?ve-all-been-that-deer-in-the-headlights kind of way, There Is No Good Card for This isn?t a spiritual treatise on how to make you a better person or a scientific argument about why compassion matters. It is a guide to effective compassion that takes you, step by step by step, past the paralysis of thinking about someone in a difficult time to actually doing something (or nothing) with good judgment instead of fear.There Is No Good Card for This features workbook exercises, sample dialogs, and real-life examples from Dr. Crowe?s research, including her popular "Empathy Bootcamps" that give people tools for building relationships when it really counts. Whether it?s a coworker whose mother has died, a neighbor whose husband has been in a car accident, or a friend who is seriously ill, There Is No Good Card for This teaches you how to be the best friend you can be to someone in need.

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Beautiful book that teaches more than just how to approach grief submitted by VandySanctus on June 16, 2018, 1:33pm I checked out this book when a friend lost her baby boy. It was so helpful on a practical level for knowing how to support my friend. It also teaches general support and empathy, which is a useful skill no matter what. Highly recommend this book.

Worth a read submitted by ginnyb60 on July 23, 2018, 9:59pm I have friends with serious health issues and wanted clear advice about what to and what not to do/say - this book was very helpful.

Helpful for those who want to try to say the right things in terrible situations submitted by kimberlina on June 14, 2020, 2:55pm Found this enlightening in terms of thinking of what might be helpful/not helpful to say in difficult situations. One of my takeaways was, "how is that for you now" or "how are you right now"?