Sometimes we can help. Sometimes we can’t. But every encounter, every interaction, is an opportunity for this person to feel seen, feel heard, feel understood.
And this matters. Because whatever people are going through, from the inconvenient to the intractable, the transient to the unyielding, they know that at least, in this moment, they are not alone.
We are wired to connect. There is a healing force in feeling accepted. We feel it in our nervous system, in our bones, in our DNA. It’s not doing nothing, it’s offering something we can only find together.
Helen Mentha 