Susan P. Halpern

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Susan Halpern has been a social worker and psychotherapist for more than thirty years. Her first book, The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Cant Find the Words, continues to be an important go-to manual for difficult times. Now in Finding the Words, Halpern offers principles and practical suggestions for those moments in relationships when one want to be kind but also must discuss a sensitive matter. She explains how to communicate with care in order to strengthen and increase our loving connections by speaking from the heart, stating intentions, and using deep listening while enabling navigation of difficult encounters.

Finding the Words, drawn from Halperns years of experience as psychotherapist, wife, and mother, suggests possi

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“Deep, quiet listening is a great gift.”
Susan P. Halpern, The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can't Find the Words

“When people are suffering, they're not open to hearing horror stories about others with similar maladies. There is less capacity for compassion at such moments.”
Susan P. Halpern, The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can't Find the Words

“The softest things in the world May be harder than the hardest. Soft water can go through the strongest wall. Knowing this, I know the value of calm. Knowing this, I know the value of patience. Knowing this, I know the value of persistence. —Lao Tzu”
Susan P. Halpern, The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can't Find the Words



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