Lesson 31: Parents and Children - Slide 18
Empathy Leads To Better Relationships With Your Parents
- Forgiveness requires empathy, the imaginative participation in another’s feelings or ideas
- Develop empathy for your parents by thinking about the motives and circumstances surrounding their actions and mistakes
- True empathy means getting into their head and heart to both understand and feel their experience
Notes:
Pg. 47, “I’m OK, You’re My Parents, How to Overcome Guilt, Let Go of Anger and Create a Relationship That Works,” Dale Atkins, Ph.D., Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2004
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