I am sharing what I have learned after losing my beautiful man to suicide in the hope that it helps someone else, in the hope that there can be some meaning from this tragedy. Grief is profoundly personal. I hope the bravery of my sharing my own experience will help others pull through.
Every year, locals and tourists alike enjoy sunny afternoons at Lukes Kitchen. What many don’t know is that before serving epic pizzas and cocktails, Paul Reilly, Luke’s father, ran a mechanic shop in that same spot.
I guess, considering my bloodline and my early childhood experiences with boats, water craft of all kinds were always going to play an important role in my life.
And that’s where good listening comes in. A good listener will firstly attend carefully to hear the information (or lack of it) at all three levels, then feed back or reflect what is and isn’t being heard. This can then help the talker to fill in the gaps and build a clearer picture of the situation or expand it for themselves. This is the great thing about good listening: you don’t have to solve the problem, but you can help the talker solve it for themselves.
There’s an election coming up so I elected to write about it, with a focus on the slogans we are fed on the myriad billboards that are colourfully decorating our roadsides.
I am sharing what I have learned after losing my beautiful man to suicide in the hope that it helps someone else, in the hope that there can be some meaning from this tragedy. Grief is profoundly personal. I hope the bravery of my sharing my own experience will help others pull through.
Every year, locals and tourists alike enjoy sunny afternoons at Lukes Kitchen. What many don’t know is that before serving epic pizzas and cocktails, Paul Reilly, Luke’s father, ran a mechanic shop in that same spot.
I guess, considering my bloodline and my early childhood experiences with boats, water craft of all kinds were always going to play an important role in my life.
And that’s where good listening comes in. A good listener will firstly attend carefully to hear the information (or lack of it) at all three levels, then feed back or reflect what is and isn’t being heard. This can then help the talker to fill in the gaps and build a clearer picture of the situation or expand it for themselves. This is the great thing about good listening: you don’t have to solve the problem, but you can help the talker solve it for themselves.
There’s an election coming up so I elected to write about it, with a focus on the slogans we are fed on the myriad billboards that are colourfully decorating our roadsides.
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