How to strengthen your community during community spread COVID-19

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How to strengthen your community during community spread COVID-19

As we watch events unfold over the past month like a complicated origami swan, we have seen restaurants send food to the homeless shelters by the truckloads, see school staff driving in buses to deliver meals safely to kids at home, and businesses change protocols to account for the needs of the community.

If you are like our family and feel compelled to find a way to give back to your community as they have given to us, here are a few suggestions:

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The Danger of Saying, “I Understand” - 5 steps that lead toward understanding

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The Danger of Saying, “I Understand” - 5 steps that lead toward understanding

Managing conflict is not about finding ways to agree with each other but rather reaching an understanding together. This is MUCH MORE than saying, “I understand.” Because those two words hold the most ambiguous meaning.

These 5 steps can help us see understanding as something we’re working toward and not a full on destination that stops abruptly.

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What to do when empathy and boundaries collide

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What to do when empathy and boundaries collide

Empathy is meant to interrupt fears, to interpret experiences internally and to be felt deeply. How can we can elicit empathy WHILE maintaining healthy boundaries in our relationship with others and ourselves?

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