As a place to start today, reflect on this idea: when someone tells you how they feel, does that impact who you believe they are? With what you think they might believe, need, think or know? Do you give people space to feel and process or do their feelings color what you believe about them or spur you to action on their behalf?
More specifically, perhaps also reflect on a time in which someone shared their feelings with you and it colored something you believed about them, or believed they needed, for better or worse. Let’s wade into that.
