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How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations

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Kathryn Mannix
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NZ$ 42.99
Hardback
h222 x 141mm - 272pg
16 Sep 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780008435431
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Most of us have a conversation we' re avoiding. From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better - more honestly, more confidently and without regret. ' Beautiful . . . This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it' PHILIPPA PERRY A child coming out to their parent. A family losing someone to terminal illness. A friend noticing the first signs of someone' s dementia. A career' s advisor and a teenager with radically different perspectives. There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for one another. Why do we so often come away from those times feeling like we could have done more, or should have been braver in the face of discomfort? Why do we skirt the conversations that might matter most? By bringing together deeply moving stories with a lifetime' s experience working in medicine and the newest psychology, Mannix offers lessons for how we can better speak our mind and help when others need to. There is probably a conversation that you are currently avoiding having. This is a book to help you have it, to help you be there for others, to help you ask for what you want and need, to help you be less unsure in the face of change and challenge.
EARLY PRAISE FOR LISTEN' This is a beautiful book. It gets to the heart of difficult conversation and consoling talk. I' m glad it will be in the world. Too often people want their friends and relations to take all the difficult talk to a therapist, there has to be more than the professional listeners who know how to have a mutually impactful beautiful, tender conversation. This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it. Kathryn is so on the button I actually feel listened to by reading it . . . We all need meaningful connection in our lives, Kathryn guides us towards this' Philippa PerryPRAISE FOR WITH THE END IN MIND' It is incredibly moving, of course, but what it isn' t is miserable. Yes this is a book about death, but it is also a book about joy. There aren' t all that many books that change the way you see the world. This book really might. It will make you want to do a better job of loving and living. It will make you want to be kinder. And it will make you want to cherish every precious moment of your precious life. ' Sunday Times' Extraordinary and profoundly moving. . . . Any reader will come away with the wish that they will be cared for at the end by someone with Mannix' s imaginative sympathy and matter-of-fact generosity of perception' Rowan Williams, New Statesman' Illuminating and beautiful . . . I shed a few tears but it' s not gut wrenching and Mannix weaves the light and dark strands of her experience with finesse. It' s essential reading for anyone who will encounter death, and that means all of us. ' Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times' I got to the end of Kathryn Mannix' s book with just one thought - I wish I' d been a palliative consultant . . . A reminder that talking about death is an Act of Love' Greg Wise
Kathryn Mannix has spent her medical career working with people who have incurable, advanced illnesses. Starting in cancer care and changing career to become a pioneer of the new discipline of palliative medicine, she has worked in teams in hospices, hospitals and in patients' own homes to deliver palliative care, optimising quality of life even as death is approaching. Having qualified as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist in 1993, she started the UK' s (possibly the world' s) first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients, and devised ' CBT First Aid' training to enable palliative care colleagues to add new skills to their repertoire for helping patients. Kathryn has worked with many thousands of dying people, and has found their ability to deal with illness and death both fascinating and inspirational. She believes that a better public awareness about what happens as we die would reduce fear and enable people to discuss their hopes and plans with the people who matter to them.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008435431
Published: 16 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: William Collins
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 141mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 272

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