#419 When Someone You Love Is Hurting
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When Someone You Love Is Hurting
When someone you love is hurting, there are four things you can do to be helpful and kind. Be present. Don't judge them for their struggles. Be careful not to get burnout or overwhelmed. And finally, don't feel guilty for their pain. These four things are easy to do, but when we do them well, we can support our hurting loved ones.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. For most of us as we live our |
| 0:09.6 | lives we fall in love with people not not just in the romantic way, but people that we care for. |
| 0:16.0 | And their joys, their happiness, their successes, their failures, their pains, |
| 0:21.0 | are often our pains, our joys, our happiness. |
| 0:25.5 | This past year I had the privilege and honor of being in my best friend's |
| 0:29.7 | wedding. |
| 0:30.6 | He got remarried after five years of being divorced to a beautiful soul. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm not sure when I was at his wedding if I was more excited than he was about him getting remarried |
| 0:41.0 | because I also went through with him his divorce, which was contrived. him |
| 0:43.4 | his divorce which was contentious |
| 0:45.5 | argumentative and painful for him. |
| 0:48.4 | Another friend of mine who I've known for years she has two young children and a husband that she loves deeply, |
| 0:56.0 | has been diagnosed with cancer, and she's been struggling with it for a couple years now. |
| 1:01.5 | And we also connect often to talk about the challenges and the difficulties |
| 1:05.8 | and sometimes even the joyful moments as she continues to survive and go through |
| 1:11.7 | the challenges of fighting off the cancer. |
| 1:14.0 | If you're a parent, you probably know the challenges that come with being a parent, |
| 1:19.0 | particularly in this day and age where a fentanyl is laced in so many different prescription drugs that people |
| 1:26.6 | think they're not taking that drug that they thought it was, but it's something with fentanyl |
| 1:30.4 | on it and it kills them. And if we love someone, particularly if it's |
| 1:35.6 | our child that's experimenting with drugs, it can be overwhelming. So in this podcast I often talk about what we do when we're struggling. |
| 1:47.0 | But what do we do when people that we love are going through difficult times? When they're struggling, how do we help them and |
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