When someone close to you is sad - What to do?

Gestalt Therapy - Living Here and Now

We all deal with someone who is sad at some point in our lives. But how do you handle a situation like that? What do you say, or do?

We tend to try and fix the situation for that person, tell them what to do to feel better but is that what they really need? In this episode, I go into this by way of a personal experience. I myself am a fixer and an organizer and my approach was to try and take away the sadness from my kids or my friends.

Gestalt therapy has taught me that we all need to be allowed to feel what we feel, when we do. During the episode, we dive deeper to look at this from 2 sides. How it is for you to be next to the sad person and how your reactions might influence this sad person.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Books:

The body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk

When the body says no by Gabor Mate

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