Sharing – How To Make Someone Truly Feel Heard

In my opinion, one of the many reasons we have a loneliness epidemic. Spending time with someone and feeling truly heard is rare, yet it’s essential for our mental health.

“This is all to say that feeling heard is important and, when able, it’s worthwhile to more intentionally help the people in your life feel heard and understood. Friends. Coworkers. Family. Doing so requires intention, validation, and acceptance. You can’t be quick to judge or butt in, either. It’s not the easiest of things to nail down. It takes practice. But when you do it well, it puts another person at ease and signals that you are someone who puts forth the effort to understand.In other words? It shows that you care. That’s a rare power — and one worth focusing.”

Jeremy does a great job describing the skills necessary to do this. It’s well worth your time to read. Personally, the area I see people struggle with the most is the inability to sit in silence, which then leads to feeling like they need to say “something”, and that can often wind up not reserving judgment.

How many times have you tried to have a difficult conversation and been met with a quick, dismissive, response? Would just sitting in silence and allowing you to speak have been the better choice? Did that not happen because so many of us are not comfortable with silence?

Get comfortable with it, and learn the other skills as well.

https://www.fatherly.com/life/how-to-make-someone-else-feel-heard