Handle with Care: Empathy at Work
65 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsIt can be difficult to support coworkers as they go through hard times. Liesel Mertes cultivates empathy at work as guests share stories of how real-life struggle affected the workplace. Episodes close with actionable tips to make you a better manager, coworker, and friend.
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Empathy and Connection for Start-ups: an interview with Selfless.ly
October 13, 2021 12:01 - 50 minutes - 116 MB- Joshua Driver And so it's always been confusing to me why startups don't think about their culture from day one. And because we spend so much of our wake time at work, especially on our stage and the positive vibes or feelings you get out of helping others or contributing to the betterment of your community or society or making a difference for somebody else is such an important experience I think everybody should have, INTRO Why aren’t we focusing on culture from Day 1? Tod...
Lead Like a Human: an interview with Adam Weber
September 29, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MB– Adam Weber One of the I think keys to genuine empathy is through consistent one on one and how you display empathy, like, structurally inside of an organization. So, for example, a one on one is that place where as a manager, you can create safety with your team and with your direct reports and create a vulnerable relationship where you really do know what's going on inside of their world in their life INTRO Sometimes, when you hear from leaders, you are inundated with their succ...
To See It, Be It: an interview with Max Yoder
August 25, 2021 01:15 - 57 minutes - 131 MB- Max Yoder That divine middle is emotional liberation, where I can be compassionate and show compassion to an individual. But I do not need to carry whatever it is that they are feeling, right, not my responsibility to. And the thing about the thing that I think this is so important for me in my life is I think this was my biggest blocker, my biggest blocker to grow like something that I may have gone through my whole life and never addressed if it were not for something like Lessonly. ...
Human Skills Are Business Skills: an interview with Joe Staples
July 20, 2021 03:52 - 47 minutes - 54 MB- Joe Staples For anybody listening, you can learn empathy. It's not something that somebody should go. You know, I'm not an empathetic. So I'm just going to stay the way I am. INTRO Human skills ARE business skills. You cannot create lasting, high-performing teams without paying attention to and caring for the actual humans on your team. This is something that my guest, Joe Staples, has seen again and again in his years of work. We are going to talk about tips and tact...
The Awakening: Embodied Empathy for Leaders
July 06, 2021 17:37 - 45 minutes - 51.6 MB- Tegan Trovato There's an awakening happening in corporations and people are now choosing their jobs based on values. And that will force organizations who aren't already inclined to that thinking to really start rethinking their approach to caring for their people and the beautiful thing. NEW INTRO Today, we talk about the awakening that is happening in the workforce as a result of COVID, change, and choice. How workers are choosing jobs based on values and what top leaders ...
The Pulse of Your People: Optimizing Workplace Support During Crisis and COVID
June 22, 2021 14:37 - 39 minutes - 45.6 MBNick Smarrelli But at the end of it, you know, you can't be listening to the reality. It can't be you can't be talking about how fantastic things are when things don't feel fantastic because then you lose all credibility and that's what people want. I think in leadership these days. I can get really snarky when technology is not working well for me…just ask my family. Chromecast under functioning, the link refusing to load. All of it can seem like a lot. But the biggest frustratio...
We Are Humans First: Empathy and International Teams
June 08, 2021 20:21 - 51 minutes - 59.3 MB- Jorge Vargas And sometimes we forget that at work. We forget that in other scenarios. And at the end of the day, work is important and matters. But but it's work. And we are we're humans and we're people. And we were feelings and we're joy. We're sadness first. And that ends up having a huge influence and work at the end of the day and not recognizing that it's a little bit naive and dismissive of it makes us better workers if we actually are a little more self-aware about how we're feel...
How to Mainstream Mindfulness and Operationalize Compassion
May 25, 2021 19:44 - 45 minutes - 51.5 MBThis is the Handle with Care: Empathy at Work podcast. I’m your host, Liesel Mindrebo Mertes helping you build a culture of care and connection through empathy at work. MUSICAL TRANSITION Welcome to Season 2. Empathy matters. It isn’t just some squishy personality trait, it is a set of skills and a capacity for connection that you can develop, if you have the desire. And that is what season 2 is all about. I am going to introduce you, in each episode, to a leader that is pu...
Lament: Embracing Pain on the Path to Healing
April 26, 2021 20:49 - 48 minutes - 112 MB- Mark Vroegop I mean, it's just so private and so painful and so isolating at so many levels. And that's why I said grief isn't tame, because part of the viciousness of it is its unpredictability. Yeah, something can remind you, something can be a trigger. And it's just it's it's not controllable. It's not tameable. And I think understanding that is actually really helpful INTRO Grief can rob you of language. The feelings are so totalizing, so big and unwieldy. You don’t know wh...
Support for Those Struggling with the Disease of Addiction: an interview with Wendy Noe
April 12, 2021 15:44 - 47 minutes - 108 MB- Wendy Noe We are we have been dealing with a crisis with with the disease of addiction. And again, I think that we can see that because we're talking about it more than we've ever talked about it. And that's because we're seeing so many people affected by it. But it is a it's a huge health crisis that we're living in right now. It's just gigantic. And I don't think, quite honestly, we've seen the worst of it at this point. INTRO Hi everybody. Today we are talking about the disea...
How to Stop Asian Hate and Support our Asian Friends and Colleagues: an interview with Tara VanderWoude
March 30, 2021 16:40 - 49 minutes - 56.4 MB- Tara VanderWoude That has been so supportive of me, is just knowing that I'm not in it alone, not alone individually, but then not even alone as as a Korean American, as an Asian-American, but that there are others cross ethnic, cross racial who who care about this and who want to learn, grow and who want to take action when necessary toward toward the this hatred and this anti Asian sentiment of this past year plus. INTRO Anti-Asian hate crimes have skyrocketed over the last...
Layoffs, Trauma, and Disordered Identity: An Interview with Jon Tesser
March 16, 2021 00:53 - 41 minutes - 47.1 MBJon Tesser Do I have value? Do I have skills? Am I ever going to get a job again? Is am I worthy? Am I worthy? I mean, it gets down to this idea of shame and worthiness. It gets really deep, right? This idea that I'm not worthy because I don't have a job. INTRO In today’s episode, we are talking about the trauma of lay-offs. And this is a rich conversation. We are going to talk about how to fire someone with empathy, what it looks (and sounds like) when employers pile on the sham...
E. coli, Cancer, and Cascading Grief: an interview with Jill Harding
March 03, 2021 00:19 - 43 minutes - 100 MBJill Harding Whenever I share those stories, people like you look so, so optimistic and you're so bubbly on life with what you've been through. And I said because at the end of the day, my kiddos fortunate, they have taught me a lot about life in ways that I don't know if we didn't go through those experiences, one, I could have taught them as a parent. And secondly, I learned a lot by their endurance, resilience and what they all went through. INTRO Sometimes in life, one disr...
Alcohol, Addiction and Life in Recovery: an interview with Mike Thibideau
February 15, 2021 01:31 - 1 hour - 143 MB- Mike Thibideau But it's been. A really meaningful way to to change a lot of things about myself that were the underlying cause of like kind of what I went back to before, like I didn't I I didn't know why people would like to be sober and the reality is, is because they don't hate themselves. If you don't if you don't hate who you are, then just existing in your own skin isn't a miserable state of existence and finally learning to come to peace with those things. Is what really navigatin...
Miscarriage and Meaning: an Interview with Danielle Ireland
February 01, 2021 17:29 - 49 minutes - 56.1 MBMiscarriage and Meaning: an Interview with Danielle Ireland - Danielle Ireland It was four or five different nurses came in one at a time and just held my hand and looked me in the eye and told me her story of loss was a miscarriage. And and I don't remember I don't remember their faces. I don't remember their names. But I just remember each each time it was like this wave of relief. And I'm still feeling it now talking about it like hearing I lost two and then I had to. I had to an...
Lighting the Dark: Cari Hahn on Breast Cancer
January 21, 2021 15:39 - 40 minutes - 46.6 MB- Cari Hahn And I and I remember being on my hands and my knees rocking back and forth, screaming at the top of my lungs. I just was so devastated. And I think I was breathing all of it. I was breathing the fact that I had had cancer. I was grieving the fact that I had worked so hard and that I had left so little for myself INTRO My guest today is Cari Hahn, a breast-cancer survivor and the founder of Karma Candles. Cari talks about the challenges or breast cancer, the stupid ...
COVID, Leadership, and Reducing Stigma: an interview with Arwen-Widmer-Bobyk
December 29, 2020 20:11 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB- Arwen Widmer-Bobyk I have no problem having everybody know that I had COVID. I don't I don't feel I don't feel that that is a reason for shame. After all, we are literally in the midst of a global pandemic and tens of millions of people have this and often through no fault of their own. INTRO Today, we talk about leadership and COVID, how the virus gives us a chance to model a different openness and acceptance-without-judgment and how throw-away comments can trigger cycles of...
Hurting Yet Whole: Liuan Huska on living with chronic pain
December 15, 2020 01:18 - 1 hour - 69.7 MB- Liuan Huska And so I. I felt like when people were able to say to me, you're not just like something to be fixed, but we can actually learn from what you're going through and what you have to offer as someone who is suffering is valuable and actually may be central to our human experience, is not marginal in something that we just put on the aisles. INTRO My guest today is Liuan Huska. Liuan is the speaker and the author of a tremendous book, just released this month by IVP ...
Working While Black, Part 2: To Be Us Productions
November 30, 2020 02:26 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MB- Cedrick Smith We're going to tackle topics that are hidden in the crevices, that are a lot of times filled with shame and no one wants to talk about. But in order for us to get to where we need to get to and to heal from those pains and traumas, we are going to cover those topics and this being our first film, we couldn't be more pleased INTRO This is the conclusion of a two-part conversation on Working While Black, where I talk with Tosca Davis and Cedrick Smith, two Black worke...
Working While Black: Part 1, To Be Us Productions
November 16, 2020 14:27 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MBCedrick Smith So the disruptive part for me is the white supremacy, the white supremacy, and the microaggression is the microaggression of outright racism, to be quite honest with you, that I've had to deal with and I think that's what people don't realize is what we're bringing to the workplace before we even hit the door, before we even have to deal with some of the I want to say normal disruptive events that we all have. INTRO This is the first in a two-part series about the...
A New Normal: Char Simpson on life after the death of her soulmate
October 26, 2020 18:21 - 48 minutes - 66.1 MB- Char Simpson You've got to create this new normal. You just got to find what makes you happy. And create this new normal and what makes you happy may be almost very, very different from what it was with your husband, but it's just you. And so you you weren't meant to just be miserable. Life's going to be good. INTRO My guest today is Char Simpson. To her many Instagram followers, she is known as the Traveling Black Widow, an older, beautiful Black woman traveling the world…or tr...
Dead bunnies, COVID meltdowns, and other empathy failures: personal reflections from Liesel Mertes
October 13, 2020 15:01 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBLiesel Mertes It's been a pretty eventful and emotional week and a half in my house now with six people in the house. There's always high emotion throw into the mix that two of my children are preadolescents. And you can guess all of the back and forth that go on. But this last week and a half has had some particular inflection points. We had a beloved family pet die. We've been quarantined because of a possible COIVD diagnosis. And there's just been a lot of general stress i...
He is a Gift and Every Day is Enough: Cerebral Palsy
September 28, 2020 14:05 - 1 hour - 83.5 MB- Peter Kline I'm never doing enough, never doing enough of working enough with them and never doing enough therapy outside of therapy hours with them and knowing the importance of that, but also trying to manage the responsibility and guilt that comes along with that while also, also being clear on. But every day with him is a gift and every day is enough. That's it. It's it's holding those two things together that often feels very difficult, but that's kind of what we're given to manage...
“So, no babies?”: Megan Flinn on survival and goodness
September 14, 2020 16:47 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MB- Megan Flinn I have, I have faced my own deep, like I have survived the thing, I think a lot of people have the great wounding or the great pain point of their life. And for those of us who have faced and wrestled through it and acknowledge it changes us. We then can turn to others and kind of say, like, I've been to my deepest, darkest parts of myself and come out on the other side like. That's possible for you too, the hope of that is true for everybody, INTRO Today’s conver...
My Son has an Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Interview with Chrissy Brack
August 31, 2020 15:21 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MB- Chrissy Brack But if you want to know what it's like to be a special needs parent, it's pretty much like this year all the time, in a way, maybe with like less threat of death around every corner. Like there's not like that that like pandemic piece of it. But as far as the amount of hurdles and unknowns and what's going to happen and what's that going to look like and how do I even put anything into place to get through? We'll make a plan for one week and then everything changes the next...
The Fine Art of Waiting: Stacey Ballard on Chronic Illness
August 17, 2020 13:45 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MB- Stacey Ballard I think the most important thing is that 40 percent of Americans live with at least one chronic illness, 40 percent of Americans. So we all know somebody who lives with chronic illness. And so we we know that those people are out there working right now, just like I had to work, whether I felt good or bad. So we just need to be nice to each other even. You know, we need to understand that we're all going through something, whether it's chronic illness, whether it's addict...
Living with a rare, terminal disease: Dustin Kaehr and HATTR
August 06, 2020 23:03 - 48 minutes - 67.3 MB- Dustin Kaehr And I think there are some people that are so scared of dying that they never truly live. And so so I think if we can help people understand how to truly live. Because once you get that. Once I have that, I'm way more understanding. INTRO Dustin Kaehr is many things. He is a leadership and business coach. He is a trainer and speaker and author and entrepreneur. And he is all of these things while living with a terminal disease, HATTR, that has no cure. HATTR is...
Be Strong and Courageous: Teen Suicide and a Father’s Heart
July 19, 2020 13:30 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBWade Brown While there are plenty of opportunities to be angry, we don't want to be angry. We don't. Joshua was a beautiful, beautiful young man. And Joshua is not suicide. Joshua is a 14-year-old who did an adult thing in a moment of weakness and we'll never know why. He's a kid that did an adult thing. He's not suicide. And so, you know, it's important for us to demonstrate to our kids. And I try to do it at work as well. We choose love and grace. We do. INTRO This is the sec...
How can I honor her? Jason Seiden on life and meaning after his daughter’s suicide
July 06, 2020 19:45 - 49 minutes - 68 MB- Jason Seiden That meant that I would gladly, if I could be the last person ever lose a child. I would I would take that on, if I could, to say it like that's how horrible it is that I don't ever want anybody else to feel it. And so other folks actually telling me that they're happy and that they're like, I think they would feel like I would feel worse, like rubbing it in. - Jason Seiden But actually, no, you know, that's it's the opposite. Like live your life. And tell me you've ...
Racism, Loss, and Living while Black: an interview with Fred Brown
June 22, 2020 19:43 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB- Fred Brown That was difficult. And that the kind of person I am or what people expect from me is to not flinch in the face of adversity. I could never grieve. In a meaningful way. And I've never grieved in a meaningful way because. The role I typically play in this society that I live in is the caretaker provider and supporter. So. You know, I remember one time I got emotional and people looked at me and it was like. Their whole construct of strength was like in question for years and ye...
Everything Fell Apart: Cancer, Miscarriage, Divorce, and Infant Loss. An Interview with Molly Huffman
June 08, 2020 01:50 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MB- Molly Huffman A year after Tage died, I had processed so much that by the time my husband left, I, I was I was definitely anxious and really struggling at that point. But then there was this little bit of just, a I had to laugh and maybe that was all I could do to keep from drowning, but it was just like, are you kidding me? Like this, too. This is unreal. You like this. This can't happen to people this much loss. INTRO Sometimes in life, it seems like one loss piles on top of t...
My partner is dead: drunk driving and sudden death. An interview with Barry Hoyer
May 25, 2020 20:05 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MB- Barry Hoyer All of my friends have kind of treated this is like the loss of a husband or a wife, like it has the exact same gravity. Yeah. Work, it's. It's an interesting conversation at work. My my V.P. is also gay, and we're roughly the same age and we've started an LGBTQ employee resource group. So my name is very out there in the company as being the leader of this group. And so it's definitely not an aspect of myself that I've ever felt the need to hide at work. Quite a few peop...
Front-line workers & the stress of being essential: an interview with Seth Morales
May 11, 2020 15:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MB- Seth Morales Those folks have had their eyes closed to this central, frontline workforce. And I think the lights have turned on and many people are starting to realize that this essential frontline workforce that is delivering packages to your front door, making sure that certain type of food or consumer good products are making it to the grocery store or anyone else's household. It it's a priority and it it matters. INTRO We are deep into the COVID-19 quarantine. My thought...
“Action is the best way to help”: reform for restaurants in COVID-19
April 26, 2020 19:41 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBSerena Suh The whole pandemic impacting our economy and the restaurant industry is a big, big event. But in the end, why is that so catastrophic is because of the ways that restaurant workers and the restaurant industry have not been given safety nets. And it's a bigger issue than the issue itself will not go away once the pandemic goes away. Right. And I think that this is a time when actually it's just an opportunity for us to see the underlying issue and immediate relief, such as advoc...
Alcohol, Self-Soothing, & the Coronavirus: an interview with David Mills
April 13, 2020 19:06 - 30 minutes - 42 MB- David Mills But I promise you, anyone who's hearing this. There are absolutely incredible things about you that other people see that you don't see. So be gentle with yourself. Be gentle with yourself, because there's always gonna be parts of yourself that you personally you don't feel like you can fully with. And there's a lot of ways to address that. Alcohol is one of the ways. There are a lot of other ways, too. INTRO This is a special, COVID-19 edition of the Handle with ...
COVID-19 & Catering: Insights from the Pirate Ship
March 29, 2020 15:32 - 20 minutes - 27.5 MB- Matt Mills You care about their family; you care about each other's success and what you're doing. And you never want to. You never want to see anyone suffer, especially from things out of their control. As far as our, personally, with my business, I was telling them the first person and not get paid, it's gonna be me or will be me or is me. So as far as the restaurants go, it's just such a tenuous thing. - Liesel Mertes Hi, this is Liesel with the Handle with Care podcast. Per...
Living with Depression: an Interview with Paul Ashley
March 15, 2020 23:11 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MB- Paul Ashley Because it dismisses it dismisses who who I am or whoever that person is. You're saying it, too. It dismisses who their whole self is. Yes. Right. Again, the dichotomy of the fact that I have depression, yet I'm a hoot to be at be at a party with or are both true and at the same time. And if you dismiss either part of that, like all, if you're depressed, you can have fun. If you're fine, you can be depressed. Right. You're basically saying I'm not me, and that's offensive. ...
Dissolved Adoption: Shame, Isolation, & Painful Choices
March 01, 2020 22:38 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MB– Adam Bryan And in this, the first time we've talked publicly about this, because this gets a really people get shamed. This is this is a really black mark on many families. And they get kicked out of churches, they get kicked out of neighborhoods, they get kicked out of families where the grandparents or the parents will say, you know, how can you do that to a child? How can you consider that and will kick people out of families in shame? - Allie Bryan I mean, shame, the biggest....
Mental Health, Stigma, and Suicide: a Chinese-American Perspective
February 09, 2020 22:54 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MB– Karen Ng Do we mention suicide? Do we use that word? And there was a lot of reluctance. My mom's gut reaction was no. How could we tell people that she took her own life? You know how. How shameful. You know, what would people think? And it would it would. It has implications for the family that somehow it was their fault because she killed herself. And why would she do that? She comes from a good family. She had more than most people in this world and must have something to do with her ...
Living with PTSD: an interview with Elsie Iudicello
January 27, 2020 01:48 - 40 minutes - 55.2 MBAnd I think that was when I really learned that, you know, all our healing doesn't happen at the same time. I think I was very impatient to just get better. I just wanted everything to go away. And I didn't realize that, you know, I had accumulated trauma from some past events and then from this event. And there was so many different aspects to healing. INTRO Today, we are talking about post-traumatic-stress disorder: what it looks like in the life of one woman after a medical a...
My daughter has narcolepsy: an interview with Susan White
January 13, 2020 00:11 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MB– Susan White I don't think people understand narcolepsy. They don't understand that. I'm sure any other invisible disability. It was hard for me to talk about because I know you're with all your colleagues your friends you're focused on work and you've got your adult daughter at home in the dark in a room that she's you know for three days maybe she only got up to go to the bathroom and eat more food. I mean it's just horrible. INTRO When I was in college, I was a rower on the...
Nobody Sent a Card: Jennifer Merrell and Addison’s Disease
December 23, 2019 02:29 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBAnd at the end of the day it felt like these are the people I spent 50 hours a week with. I was in the office seven something every morning always wanting to do my best for the people I worked with. And at the end of the day I left and only heard from one person ever again. And these were my friends for years. The people I spent the majority of my life with INTRO Today’s episode is sponsored by FullStack PEO. You are a small company, an entrepreneur that has just hired your firs...
The Holidays Can Be Hard
December 09, 2019 14:54 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBIs it, really, the most wonderful time of the year? With all the holiday greetings and everybody, telling you to be of good cheer? Maybe not. Maybe its not the most wonderful time of the year. And that is why today is a special holiday edition of the Handle with Care podcast. INTRO Cookies bake. Fires crackle. Familiar Christmas favorites play over the radio. There is holly and family gatherings and everything can seem to take on a glow of glad tidings. And yet, thi...
Infertility and IVF: an Interview with Julie McCorkle
November 25, 2019 03:20 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MB- Julie McCorkle I didn't allow myself to be as vulnerable as I probably would today because there are a lot of great people out there that do truly care even if they don't understand or don't know what you need. I think I would have voiced that a lot sooner. INTRO Today, I welcome Julie McCorkle. Julie is the head of HR at PERQ, a tech firm here in town. She shares about the difficult, embodied journey of infertility, and three years of IVF treatments, and how she and Chis w...
Going it alone: building a life and a business after your marriage crumbles. An interview with Jennifer Magley
November 10, 2019 03:22 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MBJennifer Magley I was I was grieving the loss of of this person of this role in my life and really just more of grieving the life that I thought I was going to have and that that was actually which may be not a great sign but that was actually more painful than even just becoming a single mother it was. Oh my gosh this is my life, I’m this scarlet letter INTRO Jennifer Magley is a talented entrepreneur and speaker. She claims the stage in engagements across the nation and coac...
Parkinson’s Disease: loving and losing my dad
October 27, 2019 23:18 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBHow do you support families living under the shadow of a long-term illness? Parkinson’s disease is relentless and degenerative. There is no cure. Jason Berns remembers his dad, Don. Don was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the age of 33; Jason was just 8 years old. Jason reflects on the challenges of living in the shadow of Parkinson’s, the importance of honesty and community, and the power of hope. – Jason Berns As my dad would say you know Parkinson’s has been extremely hard ...
Mercy died, Moses needs surgery: my personal journey with grief
October 13, 2019 23:37 - 50 minutes - 70 MBToday, I share a part of my story of loss. Elaine Brenner is my guest host as I move behind the microphone, telling the truth of my collision with death and surgery. As I listened to this episode, I still felt the loss; there is so much more that I would like to tell or share, the ways that Mercy and Moses and pain have impacted and changed me. But I offer this glimpse into my story, hoping it will help you as you live through your own challenge or help a friend through theirs. 11:01 –...
Childhood Disruption, Part 3: An Interview with Magnus Mertes
September 29, 2019 20:49 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MBDisruptive life events linger; they cast a long shadow. Years afterwards, you can still be surprised by sadness or fear. Magnus knows about living with pain and uncertainty; his sister died when he was just one year old and his younger brother has needed multiple heart surgeries. Magnus shares about how pain can bring us closer to people, what kids really want from their parents, and how a note or a song can be a powerful gift to those experiencing sadness. – Magnus Mertes He was bor...
Childhood Disruption, Part 2: An Interview with Jemima Mertes
September 22, 2019 15:50 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBA hug, a nap, a kind word: each of these actions can be really helpful for those that are going through hard times. Jemima Mertes, age 6, shares these insights and more on this episode of Handle with Care. Jemima is no stranger to sadness. As she speaks about her safe place, breathing techniques, and how to remember well, Jemima offers wisdom for anyone walking with a child through tumult as well as for those that support parents during times of disruption. - Jemima Mertes I get kind...
Childhood Disruption, Part 1: An Interview with Ada June Mertes
September 16, 2019 01:59 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBWhen tragedy impacts in the life of a child, it can be difficult for adults to know how to help. Ada June, age 11, had a sister die and a brother undergo multiple open-heart surgeries. She shares about death, the power of remembering, and the importance of being able to self-advocate in the midst of pain. There is wisdom here for anyone who is walking with a child through sadness as well as for those that support parents during times of disruption. - Ada Mertes I remember telling you...