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 #3: Tips for offering help, and understanding your own blockers to accepting help
This clip was from my conversation with Tom Bagnall, a survivor of Stage 3 melanoma cancer.
We talk about tips for offering help: Make them specific, tangible and constructive.
And how recognising your own historical blockers, helps you see these in others to then be more empathetic and effective at offering help.
And this in turn supports you to be more accepting of more help in your own life.
Here's the full episode with Tom https://www.thegiftofhelp.org/2075728/11708446
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