Building an Empathy Bridge By Relating — Not Responding

An episode of the The Therapy Spot podcast, hosted by Beth Rogerson, titled "Building an Empathy Bridge By Relating — Not Responding" was published on April 17, 2018 and runs 23 minutes.

April 17, 2018 ·23m · The Therapy Spot

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Episode Description

Welcome back to the Therapy Spot, everyone! On this week's episode, I'd like to walk you through an exercise I did with two of my clients. The wife in this married couple had a lot of strong feelings surrounding an upcoming life change. Her husband struggled to show up with empathy, and instead tried to "problem solve" his wife's bad feelings away.

Empathy connects us with others (and ourselves!) in a way that sympathy does not. Empathy, to quote Carl Rogers, is "an accurate understanding of (another's) world as seen from (their) inside. To Sense (another person's...

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