#404 When Someone You Love Is Hurting
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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When Someone You Love Is Hurting
One of the most challenging aspects of finding happiness is when someone we love is suffering. How can we be happy if our child is suffering from terminal cancer? Is it possible to be joyful when our adult son or daughter is going through an acrimonious divorce? Or what do we do when our parent develops dementia? Life can still be good, even when others we love are hurting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. We talk a lot here about what to do when we're suffering. |
| 0:10.0 | But what do we do when someone we love is suffering? |
| 0:15.0 | What do we do if our mother gets dementia and seems confused or disoriented. |
| 0:23.8 | What do we do if our child is diagnosed with cancer |
| 0:28.0 | and may have to go through chemotherapy and radiation? |
| 0:32.0 | How are we to handle it when our adult child is going through a divorce |
| 0:38.2 | and it's an ugly divorce and causing him a lot of suffering? The first thing we want to do is just acknowledge |
| 0:46.9 | that it's hard when we love someone and that person is going through some physical discomfort or some severe psychological |
| 0:57.4 | disturbance, it's hard. |
| 1:00.4 | It's hard to see that person that we love suffering. |
| 1:04.0 | And we need to start with that. |
| 1:06.0 | Being truthful is helpful because then we're not going to try to deny our feelings, suppress them, or turn them off. |
| 1:15.0 | We're going to say, yes, this is challenging. |
| 1:18.0 | And we start with that. |
| 1:20.0 | We look at our feelings, we look at our thoughts. |
| 1:23.2 | We look at everything that's going through us that we're experiencing. |
| 1:27.6 | And we say, I see you. |
| 1:30.7 | I feel you. I'm experiencing you. There's a retreat center not too far from my home. |
| 1:39.0 | It's a beautiful place where a person can go and be still and be present. |
| 1:45.0 | But right next to it is a children's hospital. |
| 1:48.0 | And they have an open courtyard where parents and children can go outside and meet and spend time with each other. |
| 1:55.0 | You can't see them, but you can hear them. |
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