TSHP078: Struggling to Empathise?

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It is often said that to be empathic you need to have walked in someone else’s shoes for a while to know exactly how they feel. Some are good at this and some not so good. Struggling with it? Fear not, it can be learned (or re-learned).

Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Here’s a link to this week’s blog post by Sean
• ‘Why I Want My Daughters To Learn Empathy Rather Than Chinese‘
• ‘5 Ways to Be More Empathetic‘
• ‘Loneliness Is a Silent Killer‘
• ‘Self-Segregation: Why It’s So Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson‘
• Check out the Empathy Library
• That word that Ed struggled to say… Alexithymia

• Sean found a great website which includes an empathy test
• Ed heartily recommends the book he mentioned in the show, Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It by Roman Krznaric

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