10/04/2026
Do you want to be heard or be helped?
This question gets my masculine, problem solving mind out of quite a bit of bother nowadays.
How many times have you jumped in before someone’s even finished speaking, with a solution, with a way to show them the correct answer to their problem?
Yet, maybe it was as simple as that person just wanted a friendly pair of ears to hear them, to hold space for this overwhelming situation they found themselves in.
So, next time I invite you to actually listen to them without trying to fix, and when they’ve finished, get clarity by asking:
Do you want to be heard or be helped?