Relationship Communication: Empathy
Relationship Communication Guide
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Better Communication Skills
Last week I started talking about ways to develop healthy communication in your relationship using active listening while having courageous conversations. If you’d like to read more about that, you can find the link to it here. Courageous conversation and authentic communication is the key to successful relationships. One major component of courageous conversation is the ability to use active listening while communicating. Another major component of courageous conversation is the ability to develop and use the skill of empathy.
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Empathy to Improve Communication
What is empathy?
Simply defined, empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. When engaged in communication with someone, the ability to put yourself in their shoes as a way of understanding where they are coming from from is the process of using empathy as part of healthy communication and a way to develop a healthy relationship.
Are empathy and sympathy the same thing?
No, these two things are not the same thing. Empathy is when you’re able to put yourself in another person’s shoes to understand their point of view. Sympathy is when you feel compassion, pity or sorry for another person who is struggling or hurting or going through a hard time. When communicating in your relationships there may be a time to feel sympathy for another person but empathy is an amazingly powerful tool that helps you connect with another person rather than keep them at a distance by feeling sorry for them. Empathy is the process of joining with someone on a personal level to make them feel heard.
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3 Types of Empathy
Cognitive - This is the type of empathy that is displayed by simply knowing how the other person is feeling and/or what they might be thinking or needing. This is very effective when trying to help offer someone some perspective through your intellectual understanding of what they are going through.
Emotional - This is the type of empathy that is displayed when you almost feel the emotions of another person. For example, this could be when you see someone else cry, and it makes you feel like crying.
Compassionate - This is the type of empathy that is displayed as a sort of combination of cognitive and emotional empathy. I like to think of this as the gold standard of empathy. When showing this type of empathy, you understand the other person’s feelings and you also feel it along with them.
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Building a Good Relationship
We all want to be heard, to be understood and to develop connections with those we love. When thinking of ways to build a strong relationship, understanding and using empathy is an invaluable tool. I love being able to give examples of real life situations, and I hope these will help you better understand the concept of empathy and some ideas of how to incorporate this communication tool into your relationship.
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Relationship Tip
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Relationship Communication Online Courses
I have created a set of online Relationship Communication Courses to help you dig into the communication struggles in your relationship and start getting things back on track. I realize that not everyone wants to go through long term therapy or the process of getting to a therapy appointment may not fit into your busy schedule. That's why I created this course. I wanted to provide you with a way to get access to the tools my clients get from me in my practice, but you can access the material from the comfort of your own home or wherever you are.
What's Included?
You will get access to a series of videos, activities and worksheets that are designed to help you dig into the various aspects of relationship communication.
We will talk about The 5 Love Languages, The 4 Tendencies, The 4 Agreements and so much more.
I'll provide you with actionable steps you can take to implement these tools into your relationships.
My Relationship Communication Courses are live and you can read all about them by clicking the following button:
Here’s the link to join. You can also find it and all my courses and variety of services on my Work with Me page. I am so excited to have you take part in this course, and I’m counting down the days to the launch!
You can always reach me directly through my email lindsay@lindsaywalden.com if you have any questions or if you want to know if this is a good fit for you.
Therapy Thoughts with Lindsay Podcast
Each new podcast episode is uploaded to my Therapy Thoughts Podcast Blog on the website Thursday afternoons at 2:00pm CST, and then it is shared to all the podcasting sites from there. It is also available on the Apple iTunes podcast site. You can subscribe, so you will never miss an episode!
If you want to check out last week’s Episode 24, here is the link.
I really am so grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope you’ll tune in this Thursday for Episode 25. Remember to make sure that you are following all my social media platforms so will know when each new episode is available. And, make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel, so you will be able to watch the episodes once we start recording them on video as well as audio! We are so close to having the episodes available on video!!!
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