By Susan Gubar — 2020
The program Brushes with Cancer pairs patients with artists whose works make visible a disease that can be invisible and isolating.
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You not calling, as a friend, can actually compound the grief and loss they are feeling. Just pick up the phone, even if you get it wrong, just have a conversation and do your best. Your friend with cancer is still the same person they were before.
Includes Frequently Asked Questions about how to communicate and cope.
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If you have ADHD, you might find it hard to date, make friends, or parent. That’s partly because good relationships require you to be aware of other people's thoughts and feelings. But ADHD can make it hard for you to pay attention or react the right way.
Anyone who's ever had the experience of feeling “grokked”—truly seen, known and understood by another—knows the experience at the heart of Circling, an open-source brand of communal conversation—some call it “relational yoga”—which is now practiced in over 60 communities in 45 states and 12...
In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung cancer. Yet in all that time, doctors never told him or his husband whether the cancer was curable — or likely to take Mead-e’s life.
Accepting help from others when you have a cancer diagnosis isn’t a sign of weakness.
Research has shown that people with cancer need support from friends. You can make a big difference in the life of someone with cancer.
Learning to express anger in a healthy way will help couples resolve conflicts, instead of letting them simmer.
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Passive-aggressiveness includes the obvious passive, withdrawn or apathetic approach to relationships. This approach will spill over into all sort of adult relationships, from friendships, intimate partners, school and on to the workplace.
Social media is turning an art form into an industry. Rupi Kaur is a case study in how dramatically the world of poetry has changed. The 25-year-old Canadian poet outsold Homer two years ago: Her first collection, Milk & Honey, has been translated into 40 languages and has sold 3.