listening

dog listening with big ear

listening to one’s self

By Jennifer Safian / October 21, 2020

{2 minutes to read}  Have you ever made a decision to move ahead even though something within you was telling you not to do it? When your brain kept trying to go against that little something? And when you found all sorts of reasons to believe that this was the right thing to do in…

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Sad unhappy young woman being consoled by her friend

empathy: it’s all about listening

By Jennifer Safian / March 3, 2020

What is empathy? {3 minutes to read}  The word empathy comes from the Classical Greek word empatheia. Affection and passion comes from en-(in) + pathos, meaning “feeling.” Empathy is the experience of understanding another person’s thoughts, feelings, and conditions from his or her point of view rather than from one’s own; it is the capacity…

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How Well Do You Listen? by Jennifer Safian

How Well Do You Listen?

By Jennifer Safian / July 24, 2017

{3:00 minutes to read} Did you know that the words, listen and silent have the exact same letters? Let’s think about this for a moment: SILENT and LISTEN. How else are they connected? Do you ever find that you are not getting anywhere when trying to resolve an issue with someone? One of the reasons…

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