Empathic listening can improve your communication in many ways. Learn what empathic listening is, and how to listen with empathy in life, and your marriage.Do you apply empathic listening in your marriage? We have touched on paying attention …

On your next trip, don’t forget to pack your empathy.The practice of empathy — and yes, it’s a practice — is about open-ness, creating an opening in one’s self to another. Empathy requires suspending your judgment of other…

I had a painful, but poignant phone conversation earlier this week with my wife Michelle. She shared some challenges with me in a vulnerable and passionate way. As I started to give her some of my “helpful advice” (as I often do – being a man, as well …

Educators are aware that social problems like poverty, unsafe neighborhoods, violence, and family trauma can affect how students learn when they come to school. Though teaching subjects like math and literacy are the biggest part of their job, in many …