Listen With Your Heart: Talking With the Person Who Has Cancer
When someone close to you who has cancer starts to talk about the disease, do you change the subject? Do you stand in silence, worried that you’ll say the wrong thing? If so, you share these feelings with many others.
When talking with someone who has cancer, it is important to listen. Try to hear and understand what the person is saying about how they feel. Don’t make light of what they are saying or try to change the way they are feeling or acting. Put your own feelings and fears aside. Let the person know that you are open to talking whenever he or she feels like talking. Or if the person doesn’t feel like talking, that’s OK too.
Here we will share some ideas on how to be supportive and helpful when you talk with someone who has cancer. You can learn how to make the person with cancer know that they have someone they can truly count on. We call this kind of communication “listening with your heart.”
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MBC/MBC_4x_listen_with_your_heart.asp?sitearea=MBC
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