037: Advice:

Show Notes:

When people in our lives are struggling, we offer advice to help, or we have walked similar paths and share what worked for us. We love to give advice and hate to receive it.  What is the disconnect? How do we making offering advice advantageous to our relationships?  Let’s learn to say the things in ways people accept and deepen relationships.

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Quotes & Resources: 

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” 

― Henri Nouwen

“Oh Eddie…If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now.” ~Clark Griswalk; Christmas Vacation

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603495/

https://www.verywellmind.com/types-of-social-support-3144960

https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-art-of-giving-and-receiving-advice

https://reachingself.com/why-you-should-stop-giving-advice-what-to-do-instead-surprising-reason-why-you-should-give-advice/

https://www.verywellmind.com/types-of-social-support-3144960

https://tinybuddha.com/blog/10-tips-advise-wisely-how-to-give-advice-that-actually-helps/