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When our friends and loved ones face a crisis, we often don't know what to say. Do we say anything at all? What if we say the wrong thing? Nearly everyone who has faced a hard time has heard things that weren't so helpful. But worse yet is silence, saying nothing. Emily McDowell faced such a time and, as a graphic designer, she chose to respond by doing what she loved- creating cards that say what is most helpful in bad times. Her empathy cards not only helped people reach out; by sharing she also helped people in similar circumstances feel heard and seen! Her tremendous success with the cards inevitably led to a book, There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.

When our friends and loved ones face a crisis, we often don't know what to say. Do we say anything at all? What if we say the wrong thing? Nearly everyone who has faced a hard time has heard things that weren't so helpful. But worse yet is silence, saying nothing. Emily McDowell faced such a time and, as a graphic designer, she chose to respond by doing what she loved- creating cards that say what is most helpful in bad times. Her empathy cards not only helped people reach out; by sharing she also helped people in similar circumstances feel heard and seen! Her tremendous success with the cards inevitably led to a book, There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.

When our friends and loved ones face a crisis, we often don't know what to say. Do we say anything at all? What if we say the wrong thing? Nearly everyone who has faced a hard time has heard things that weren't so helpful. But worse yet is silence, saying nothing. Emily McDowell faced such a time and, as a graphic designer, she chose to respond by doing what she loved- creating cards that say what is most helpful in bad times. Her empathy cards not only helped people reach out; by sharing she also helped people in similar circumstances feel heard and seen! Her tremendous success with the cards inevitably led to a book, There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.

Struggling is an unfortunate part of the human condition, but how do we show up for our people when we see that they're struggling? When someone we love is suffering, we often want to fix it even if that's impossible. How can we show up for others and what should we say? Listen in as Tina and Serena talk about how they support others and what things are helpful (and not helpful) to say to our people when they struggle. Episode Mentions:There is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life is Scary, Awful and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowellEmily McDowell and Friends Cards and Products emandfriends.comThe Art of Showing Up: How to Be There For Yourself and Your People by Rachel Wilkerson MillerVisit our website: NoNeedToExplainPodcast.comLike us on Facebook!Find us on Instagram @noneedtoexplainpodcastWe love to hear from you! Email us: info@mentalhealthmamas.comMental Health Resources:Suicide Prevention Lifeline: The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals. Visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org for a chat option or call 1-800-273-8255.Crisis Text Line: Our goal is to help texters move from hot moments to a cool calm. Sometimes, that means we give our texters a resource – like a breathing GIF to help them slow down or a link to finding a support group near them. Website: www.crisistextline.orgUSA text 741741Canada text 686868UK text 85258Ireland 50808NAMI HelpLine: The NAMI HelpLine is a free, nationwide peer-support service providing information, resource referrals and support to people living with a mental health conditions, their family members and caregivers, mental health providers and the public. HelpLine staff and volunteers are experienced, well-trained and able to provide guidance.To contact the NAMI HelpLine, please call 800-950-NAMI (6264), Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., ET, or send an email to info@nami.org.Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) HelplineSAMHSA's National Helpline is a free, confidential, treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders. Available 24/7, 365 days a year.1-800-662-HELP (4357) National Parent Helpline®Call the National Parent Helpline® to get emotional support from a trained advocate and become empowered and a stronger parent. Available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday.1-855-427-2736 (4APARENT)Our listeners receive 10% off any Cope Notes subscription: copenotes.com/?affiliate=MHMamas

Listening well isn’t an easy skill for most of us. We like to talk, and in a culture that values productivity and solutions above all else, simply listening can often feel like we’re not being useful. Dr. Kelsey Crowe, author of There is No Good Card for This, thinks differently.  An empathy coach and founder of the nonprofit, Help Each Other Out, Kelsey knows a thing or two about listening—making it her mission in life to teach us how to empathize in an increasingly self-centered world. On this episode of The Sidewalk Talk podcast, Traci and Kelsey laugh and listen together, talking about all things empathy, connection, and attention.  Throughout their conversation, Kelsey shares with us her three basic rules on empathy for idiots, how we can ask for the attention we need, and the value of gestures. Especially during a season where we’re dealing with more uncertainty than ever, empathy is so important—not just for others, but also for ourselves. If you’re looking for a practical guide to becoming a better listener, and better person and friend in the process, look no further than this dynamic and empathetic conversation between Traci and Kelsey.    Episode Milestones [00:07] Intro  [02:24] Meet Kelsey  [06:51] What Kelsey discovered about empathy  [09:45] Kelsey’s rules on empathy for idiots everywhere  [15:09] Why it’s hard for us to not be useful  [22:23] How we ask for the attention we need  [26:23] The value of gestures  [31:25] What Kelsey’s working on next  [34:39] Sidewalk Talk in Germany and during COVID-19  [37:17] Listening during conflict  [40:26] How can we show up differently for others during COVID  [44:55] Kelsey’s wish for you  [46:40] Outro    Resources Mentioned There is No Good Card for This: What to say and do when life is scary, awful, and unfair to people you love Help Each Other Out The Empathy Bootcamp   Standout Quotes from the Episode “The value of hearing someone else, truly hearing, cannot be underestimated.” —Kelsey Crowe  “If we’re thinking about how we’re going to respond, we’re not truly taking in what somebody’s feeling.” —Kelsey Crowe  “When people are talking, they don’t only want to be validated. Sometimes it’s actually an opportunity for them to understand and build their experience in the course of telling it. And providing people the space to do that is tremendous.” —Kelsey Crowe  “We find that listening is unproductive, that it’s not useful, when it’s so useful. So our definition of what’s useful has to expand to include presence and attention. Attention is useful.” —Kelsey Crowe  “We need to figure out more and more ways to display emotional intelligence that’s beyond just how we talk to people.” —Kelsey Crowe    Connect: Find | Sidewalk Talk Podcast At sidewalk-talk.org On Instagram: @sidewalktalkorg On Twitter: @sidewalktalkorg   Find | Traci Ruble At Traciruble.com On Instagram: @TraciRubleMFT On Twitter: @TraciRubleMFT On Facebook: @TraciRubleMFT

2020 has turned up the volume on our need for empathy and love! In 2018, Kelsey Crowe and I talked about how to get better at offering true empathy. How much do you know about offering empathy when someone you love is having hard times? Kelsey Crowe found that many people in her own life had a hard time being there for her through her own most difficult moments. Then she noticed that she was not great at it either! It became her mission to learn and teach the skills that lead to a sense that we are loved, supported, and trusted to find our own solutions. The book she co-authored with Emily McDowell, There is No Good Card for This, is a practical guide to support. Her organization, Help Each Other Out, offers valuable services for becoming more empathically wise and offering greater compassion to the people in we care about. Join us as we talk about her hard won lessons and how she learned them.

2020 has turned up the volume on our need for empathy and love! In 2018, Kelsey Crowe and I talked about how to get better at offering true empathy. How much do you know about offering empathy when someone you love is having hard times? Kelsey Crowe found that many people in her own life had a hard time being there for her through her own most difficult moments. Then she noticed that she was not great at it either! It became her mission to learn and teach the skills that lead to a sense that we are loved, supported, and trusted to find our own solutions. The book she co-authored with Emily McDowell, There is No Good Card for This, is a practical guide to support. Her organization, Help Each Other Out, offers valuable services for becoming more empathically wise and offering greater compassion to the people in we care about. Join us as we talk about her hard won lessons and how she learned them.

2020 has turned up the volume on our need for empathy and love! In 2018, Kelsey Crowe and I talked about how to get better at offering true empathy. How much do you know about offering empathy when someone you love is having hard times? Kelsey Crowe found that many people in her own life had a hard time being there for her through her own most difficult moments. Then she noticed that she was not great at it either! It became her mission to learn and teach the skills that lead to a sense that we are loved, supported, and trusted to find our own solutions. The book she co-authored with Emily McDowell, There is No Good Card for This, is a practical guide to support. Her organization, Help Each Other Out, offers valuable services for becoming more empathically wise and offering greater compassion to the people in we care about. Join us as we talk about her hard won lessons and how she learned them.

Before we close out season 2, we wanted to give you a special bonus episode where we follow up with some of our guests from season 1--to see what they're thinking and how they're feeling.Special thanks to Dr. Kelsey Crowe, co-author of There is No Good Card for This, Atsuko Okatsuka (@atsukocomedy), ShiShi Rose (@shishi.rose), Konnor and Brooke.For other episodes of Straight White Guy Listening, please visit straightwhiteguylistening.com or follow us @swglistening on facebook, instagram and twitter. And remember to subscribe, like and review while you're there.Straight White Guy Listening is created and produced by Graham High and Rebecca Breithaupt.All music in this episode was written by Daniel Birch, from the Free Music Archive.Thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet Emily McDowell, writer, illustrator aka feelings translator. In 2012 Emily started making cards because she saw a hole in the stationery market. She couldn't find any cards that reflected her reality: one that included messy relationships, dysfunctional families and her personal experience going through cancer and getting your traditional "get well" card which lead to her create her "viral hit" line of Empathy Cards, and follow up book "There is No Good Card for This". In Emily's words, "I am the person who was crazy enough to start a company with $5K and an 11th grade math skill level" If you've wondered how an Illustrator could grow a single card line into a company that is carried by over 2,000 retailers, in this conversation Emily takes you through each step of building her business from the very beginning. An episode filled with hard-earned knowledge and guidance, Emily shares invaluable wisdom gained through the rewarding but also very real truths of what it takes to grow a successful stationery business. Since the recording of this episode, near burnout, Emily chose to make some big shifts both personally and professionally, leading to profound transformations that she now also shares on more personal @emilyonlife account on Instagram. Find all things Emily McDowell at EmilyMcDowell.com and on Instagram @emilymcdowell_ @emilyonlife Watch Season 2 and this episode on our YouTube channel YouTube.com/creativethursday   You can find all things Marisa and Creative Thursday creativethursday.com creativethursdaycourses.com and on instagram and facebook @creativethursday

In this episode Damon speaks to Kelsey Crowe, Ph.D., author of There is No Good Card for This: What to do and say when life is scary, awful and, unfair to the people you love. Kelsey and Damon discuss what stops us from asking for help, how to show up for people who are suffering, and coping with grief at work. What do you say to a colleague who is grieving? Whether someone is experiencing a personal or professional setback, it’s tempting to shy away from uncomfortable topics. This episode will help you approach these important conversations and minimize the fear of saying the wrong thing. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe and leave us an honest review.

This week we do something a little different and venture into the realm of self-help. There's No Good Card for This by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell gives us quite a few things to ponder.  P.S. Stay tuned for a little stinger after the episode!

Why is it so hard to say the right thing to those going through difficult circumstances? Artist Emily McDowell was on the receiving end of some terrible responses after her own diagnosis. Now, she creates kind and irreverent greeting cards that teach us all how to be a little more human. She speaks with Kate about the best and worst things to say and do when our loved ones are hurting.

College sweethearts, Lesley Miller, and her husband, Jonathan, were excited to be welcoming their firstborn child together.  The joy of their daughter's arrival was soon shadowed by a cancer diagnosis for Jonathan at the age of 29.  Lesley shares the ups and downs of that year of juggling new motherhood while caring for her husband during cancer treatments.  She talks about God's faithful presence in their lives and the radical love of the community around them.  Today Jonathan is cancer free and the Millers are running around after three children together.  With a testimony of resilience, joy, and faithfulness, I know you will be blessed to hear Lesley's story! Resources/References mentioned in this episode: "How Not to Say the Wrong Thing" (ring article) There is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do when Life is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Dr. Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell Psalm 112:7  Book of Ruth Don't Waste Your Cancer by John Piper A Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble by Paul David Tripp Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman Proverbs 6:9 Lesley's Spotify playlist to listen to during difficult times (or really anytime!).  Mercy in the Storm Pinterest board of Cancer Resources And a little shout out to Coffee + Crumbs that Lesley mentioned toward the end.  Lesley was the amazing podcast host for Coffee + Crumbs podcast before God called her into a different chapter for her life.  You can check out C+C's collaborative blog of motherhood stories as they support and encourage mother's!  (I've been a long time fan of C+C myself).   Finally, you can follow Lesley at her blog: lesleym.com which also contains links to her social media accounts.     Thanks for listening!   You can reach Tears of Gold at www.tearsofgold.com  

How much do you know about offering empathy when someone you love is having hard times? Kelsey Crowe found that many people in her own life had a hard time being there for her through her own most difficult moments. Then she noticed that she was not great at it either! It became her mission to learn and teach the skills that lead to a sense that we are loved, supported, and trusted to find our own solutions. The book she co-authored with Emily McDowell, There is No Good Card for This, is a practical guide to support. Her organization, Help Each Other Out, offers valuable services for becoming more empathically wise and offering greater compassion to the people in we care about. Join us as we talk about her hard won lessons and how she learned them.

How much do you know about offering empathy when someone you love is having hard times? Kelsey Crowe found that many people in her own life had a hard time being there for her through her own most difficult moments. Then she noticed that she was not great at it either! It became her mission to learn and teach the skills that lead to a sense that we are loved, supported, and trusted to find our own solutions. The book she co-authored with Emily McDowell, There is No Good Card for This, is a practical guide to support. Her organization, Help Each Other Out, offers valuable services for becoming more empathically wise and offering greater compassion to the people in we care about. Join us as we talk about her hard won lessons and how she learned them.

How much do you know about offering empathy when someone you love is having hard times? Kelsey Crowe found that many people in her own life had a hard time being there for her through her own most difficult moments. Then she noticed that she was not great at it either! It became her mission to learn and teach the skills that lead to a sense that we are loved, supported, and trusted to find our own solutions. The book she co-authored with Emily McDowell, There is No Good Card for This, is a practical guide to support. Her organization, Help Each Other Out, offers valuable services for becoming more empathically wise and offering greater compassion to the people in we care about. Join us as we talk about her hard won lessons and how she learned them.

Most of us don’t know what to say when we are grieving or how to reach out when the people we love go through something awful. Dr. Kelsey Crowe’s own experiences with grief helped her realize that so many people suffer alone because the people around them don’t know what to do or say. So Kelsey actually shifted her career focus to understand what grieving people want, and what they don’t. She surveyed 900 people about their experiences with grief, founded Help Each Other Out to provide empathy bootcamps, and wrote a book about what she learned. The title of her book sums it up: There is No Good Card for this: What to say and do when life is scary, awful and unfair to people you love.* Lauren talks with Kelsey about what she learned and how we can all help each other out. Thank you to our sponsor: Rent The Runway - Unlock an endless wardrobe. Get 25% off your first month when you enter the code INFLECTION at checkout. Visit them here: RentTheRunway.com/Unlimited. Thank you to our Patrons! Get rewarded when you become a monthly supporter at Patreon.com/InflectionPoint

This week’s episode focuses on leadership and having an attitude of gratitude. My guest, Cindy Elkins, joins me to share how her experiences at Genentech and as a board member of Weight Watchers International, have shaped her perspective on life. Cindy acknowledges she didn’t always bring her whole self to work, but during her journey, she did create environments where people could flourish within corporate communities. Binding people together without using functional, structural strategies is what makes Cindy’s cultural leadership qualities a powerful asset in life and in business.   Key Takeaways: [3:14] What does the phrase ‘bring your whole self to work’ mean to Cindy? [7:29] Cindy is acutely aware of what it feels like when someone doesn’t feel safe to bring their whole self to work. [12:37] Sometimes people in senior roles need to be vulnerable. [21:57] How Cindy came to be on the board at Weight Watchers. [27:55] The body image differences between men and women. [37:11] Practical strategies to link the corporate world to a world fueled by gratitude. [49:44] Intangible cultural leadership attributes are hard to quantify.   Resources: Mike Robbins Website Mike Robbins Podcast Mike Robbins on Facebook Mike Robbins on Twitter Cindy Elkins on LinkedIn There’s No Good Card for This, by Kelsey Crowe Option B, by Sheryl Sandberg

This week’s episode looks at how we can be empathetic and compassionate towards people in our lives who are experiencing grief or other difficult situations. The author of the There is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life is Scary, Awful and Unfair to the People You Love. Dr. Kelsey Crowe shares her insights based on her many years of research on the subject. During the conversation, we touch on things organizations can do to gain loyalty by respecting their employees as whole beings, what to do and what not to say when someone you know experiences grief, and how we can become empathetic and compassionate during difficult times.   Key Takeaways: [2:23] What the phrase ‘bring your whole self to work’ means to Dr. Kelsey Crowe. [6:10] Kelsey details the inspiration behind There is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life is Scary, Awful and Unfair to the People You Love. [11:26] What should I do when something happens to someone I love? [15:08] The more humane policies we have around people’s difficult trials, the more we are respecting people as whole people. [22:49] What to say to make a connection, and comments to avoid when speaking with the bereaved. [31:31] How to become empathetic and compassionate to people.   Resources: Mike Robbins Website Mike Robbins Podcast Mike Robbins on Facebook Mike Robbins on Twitter Help Each Other Out  There is No Good Card for This  

Kelsey Crowe speaks with Laura Zarrow about how to bring empathy to work and why it matters so much. Crowe is a professor at the School of Social Work at California State University and co-author of 'There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.'Aired April 5, 2017 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When our friends and loved ones face a crisis, we often don't know what to say. Do we say anything at all? What if we say the wrong thing? Nearly everyone who has faced a hard time has heard things that weren't so helpful. But worse yet is silence, saying nothing. Emily McDowell faced such a time and, as a graphic designer, she chose to respond by doing what she loved- creating cards that say what is most helpful in bad times. Her empathy cards not only helped people reach out; by sharing she also helped people in similar circumstances feel heard and seen! Her tremendous success with the cards inevitably led to a book, There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.

When our friends and loved ones face a crisis, we often don't know what to say. Do we say anything at all? What if we say the wrong thing? Nearly everyone who has faced a hard time has heard things that weren't so helpful. But worse yet is silence, saying nothing. Emily McDowell faced such a time and, as a graphic designer, she chose to respond by doing what she loved- creating cards that say what is most helpful in bad times. Her empathy cards not only helped people reach out; by sharing she also helped people in similar circumstances feel heard and seen! Her tremendous success with the cards inevitably led to a book, There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.

When our friends and loved ones face a crisis, we often don't know what to say. Do we say anything at all? What if we say the wrong thing? Nearly everyone who has faced a hard time has heard things that weren't so helpful. But worse yet is silence, saying nothing. Emily McDowell faced such a time and, as a graphic designer, she chose to respond by doing what she loved- creating cards that say what is most helpful in bad times. Her empathy cards not only helped people reach out; by sharing she also helped people in similar circumstances feel heard and seen! Her tremendous success with the cards inevitably led to a book, There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.

On this episode, I talk to Kelsey Crowe, the co-author of the book, "There is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love." The book is funny, it's written without judgment, and it's filled with helpful and achievable ideas to help us connect to and support each other when life gets tough. It's also designed by the fabulous Emily McDowell. Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode35/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.