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
Nugget #1: 3 practical tips to make it easier to accept offers of help!
This short episode covers 3 simple tips:
1. If you have trouble accepting that offer, consider it the other way round - would you happily offer help if you were asked in the same sitation?
2. Avoid assuming there is an effort, burden and time the offerer will go through to offer that gesture of help
3. Start small - accept everyday gestures even like the offer of a coffee!
This clip is from my conversation with a good friend Marco about my health journey, and my experience of embracing the life-changing concept of ‘the gift of help for yourself and each other’.
Here's the full episode of my conversation with Marco https://www.thegiftofhelp.org/2075728/11599749
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