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5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Active Listening Skills

One of the best New Year’s resolutions that you can make this year is to improve your active listening skills. It’s okay if you’re not a good listener. Anyone can improve with a little awareness and practice. Once mastered, this valuable communication tool will go a long way in improving any relationship – whether it’s… Continue reading 5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Active Listening Skills

24 Inspiring Words of Sympathy for the Loss of a Wife

Offering words of sympathy for the loss of a wife is overwhelming for most people. Words are not enough in this situation, but some comforting token can help a grieving person know they are not alone in their pain. By expressing our sympathies we may help ease their pain and reminding them that the burden… Continue reading 24 Inspiring Words of Sympathy for the Loss of a Wife

Anticipatory Grief: What No One Tells You About the Time Before Death

Anticipatory Grief is the feeling many people experience before they lose a loved one. It can be overlooked or minimized because it’s too soon for us to feel this way, right? Many people believe that death is a sudden event, but in reality it’s often a long process. When someone is terminally ill or seriously… Continue reading Anticipatory Grief: What No One Tells You About the Time Before Death

How to be Supportive When Someone Close to You Has Cancer

Knowing how to be supportive when someone close to you has cancer doesn’t just come naturally to most people. Here’s some ideas and resources that can make a big difference. Offering Support to Someone With Cancer It’s completely natural to want to distance yourself from someone when they are going through something difficult. This is… Continue reading How to be Supportive When Someone Close to You Has Cancer