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. 4 Become a champion help receiver
This episode is with David Wasserman, a good friend of 30 years, a Sydney based Entrepreneur, passionate dog owner, sports fan and cricketer
Proudly independent resourceful and never wanting to make a fuss.
He's had a rollercoaster history of health challenges: Crohn’s disease, stomach surgery, arthritis, and this year an ankle replacementLearn how to walk again
Some themes we cover:
- Distinction from professionally asking for help and doing so personally. And it being often much tougher to help yourself vs helping others
- Being humbled by the abundance of support from friends family and work, particularly recently, which included a highly unexpected massive gesture of help from a friend to support him on his recovery from ankle surgery.
- How being a foodie and a very proud chef, left him the challenge of letting people cook for him in his beloved kitchen.
- Being vulnerable enough to accept help to go the toilet at football matches.
- The importance of having team of support and help around you for recovery.
- How accepting help has in a game-changing way strengthened friendships and relationships.
- New found respect for disabled and their challenges.
- Hospitality we are all hard-wired to serve and help.
- Nurses are walking saints, dealing with people at their most distressed - they know what to say and lift your spirits.
- Can’t do it all by yourself and the power of collaboration.
- The importance of self care and mental health.
And at the end we discuss how the simple power of accepting small gestures - a reach out thinking of you phone call, friends dropping off magazines, coming over to have a laugh and take your mind off things.
You can contact me on:
Email: ashley@thegiftofhelp.org
Facebook: Ashley Usiskin
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