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 #4: Accepting help allows people to experience pride and joy
This clip was from my conversation with Tom Bagnall, a survivor of Stage 3 melanoma cancer.
Friends of Tom were invested in his recovery. By accepting help, it gave a chance for friends to rally together to support him. They did so because they care, and to get joy from witnessing and celebrate the results of their help in his recovery.
It's a great example of having been on the receiving end of help, and experiencing its benefits, it helps you more instinctively offer help to others.
Here's the full episode with Tom https://www.thegiftofhelp.org/2075728/11708446
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