The Gift of Help: For yourself & each other
How do we encourage more of us to accept help when it’s offered, and ask for help when they need it?
As I deal with the challenge of living with a lymphoma and chemotherapy, I’ve encountered some life-changing lessons about the gift of help. The transformative realisation that accepting help is a gift since you give the chance for the help giver to experience joy, pride and/or the feel good factor of supporting someone they care about.
So I’m now on a mission to transform us all from a world of help rejectors to help receivers. So we can all revel in the Gift of Help.
This first season features conversations with people who share their inspiring health journey stories of how they’ve overcome cancer, concussion, ankle reconstructions, blindness. We discuss their raw and honest experience of asking for and accepting help and how this has changed and supported them. And then importantly we reveal some ways that they find useful to get over mental blocks to accept and ask for help.
The Gift of Help: For yourself & each other
Ep. 3 Being kind and vulnerable enough to accept help
In this episode I speak with David Rosen, an old school friend, professor and founder of his own law practice.
Proudly stoic, philosophical and extraordinary self reliant.
His recent journey is quite the rollercoaster. During the pandemic he got divorced, his law firm went into liquidation, was hospitalised by Covid, and then in January was diagnosed with prostate cancer. And yet after it all he remains philosophical and sees the silver linings.
Some of the topics we cover are:
- Some surprising yet game changing-coping mechanisms he discovered from cancer charities and his own research.
- How being angry impacts our ability to heal from cancer
- His fascinating mantra of being kind, leads to being humble and grateful. This helps you lose your ego and pride, to then be vulnerable enough to ask for help.
- Priceless support of trained nurses, and guides from charities.
- Darkest moment of being in tears turns into him consoling a neighbour.
- Power of taking a breath.
- Take control vs being reactive.
- The impact of a ‘thinking of you’ text.
- And we reveal ways to rethink accepting formal support and help. To embrace some simple but life-changing tools to make it easier for us all to ask for and offer help.
I hope this conversation helps you as much as it did me.
And that you may share it with a friend, family member or work colleague who may benefit from it too.
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Email: ashley@thegiftofhelp.org
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