How to Help Someone Feel Seen, Heard and Understood
04/04/25 • 20 min
Why “What Do You Need from Me?” Should be Among the First Things We Say
When someone with serious illness needs to make a decision about treatment, is facing the end of their life, or grieving the death of a loved one, it’s easy to feel like you just don’t know what to say. Learn conversational tools to help them more effectively. https://bit.ly/42hWWEw
#friendship #grieving #whattosay #comfort #howtohelp #treatmentdecisions #dyingfriend #cancer #support #communication #listening #activelistening #seenheardunderstood #HUA
In this Episode:
- 04:23 – Iowa Road Trip and Recipe of the Week
- 06:44 – “Get a Life, A Real Life” – Excerpt by Anna Quindlen
- 09:15 – How to See, Hear and Understand in Our Relationships
- 17:21 – Honoring the Life of Hurricane, the most decorated K-9 officer in US history
- 19:23 – Outro
Related Podcasts:
- S3E18: What to Say to People Who are Grieving
- How Do You Comfort a Dying Loved One?
- S4E5: How to Write a Condolence Note
- S4E1: How to Share the News of a Death with Someone who has Dementia
- S5E6: Mothers and Their Daughters, A Blessing and a Curse
- S3E1: What you can do to help a grieving pet
- S5E3: Grief Groceries – Care Packages for the Bereaved
- S3E14: 15 Ways to Help a Grieving Child
- S1E19: Helping children with loss of a grandparent – with Tracy Harding
Get show notes and resources at our website: every1dies.org.
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Why “What Do You Need from Me?” Should be Among the First Things We Say
When someone with serious illness needs to make a decision about treatment, is facing the end of their life, or grieving the death of a loved one, it’s easy to feel like you just don’t know what to say. Learn conversational tools to help them more effectively. https://bit.ly/42hWWEw
#friendship #grieving #whattosay #comfort #howtohelp #treatmentdecisions #dyingfriend #cancer #support #communication #listening #activelistening #seenheardunderstood #HUA
In this Episode:
- 04:23 – Iowa Road Trip and Recipe of the Week
- 06:44 – “Get a Life, A Real Life” – Excerpt by Anna Quindlen
- 09:15 – How to See, Hear and Understand in Our Relationships
- 17:21 – Honoring the Life of Hurricane, the most decorated K-9 officer in US history
- 19:23 – Outro
Related Podcasts:
- S3E18: What to Say to People Who are Grieving
- How Do You Comfort a Dying Loved One?
- S4E5: How to Write a Condolence Note
- S4E1: How to Share the News of a Death with Someone who has Dementia
- S5E6: Mothers and Their Daughters, A Blessing and a Curse
- S3E1: What you can do to help a grieving pet
- S5E3: Grief Groceries – Care Packages for the Bereaved
- S3E14: 15 Ways to Help a Grieving Child
- S1E19: Helping children with loss of a grandparent – with Tracy Harding
Get show notes and resources at our website: every1dies.org.
Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | [email protected]
Previous Episode
Cancer Gone Wild - Learn All About Metastasis
Like the seeds of a dandelion drift on the wind and land other places, cancer can spread under the right conditions. How does cancer spread and why does it happen? We tackle these questions in this episode in our series “Everything you always wanted to know about cancer, but didn’t have anyone to ask.” https://bit.ly/440dQKo
In This Episode:
- 3:44 - Road Trip: Missouri and Recipe for Gooey Butter Cake
- 5:22 - What is Your Life's Resume? A Short Guide to a Happy Life
- 8:10 - What Makes Cancer Spread? (Metastasize)
- 11:33 - Why Does Metastasis Happen?
- 13:58 - Where Does Cancer Tend to Spread To?
- 16:02 - Discussion About Metastatic Cancer
- 17:42 - Discussion - How Do You Find Cancer?
- 23:26 - What's Left of Me: Poems of a Dead Soul
- 24:12 - Outro
Simply put, metastasis is when the cancer moves from the original organ to another part of the body. The goal of treating metastatic cancer is to control it by stopping or slowing its growth. Some people can live for years with metastatic cancer that is well-controlled. The treatment depends on the type of primary cancer, where it has spread, previous cancer treatments, and general health.
Cancer researchers, at the most basic level, focus their energy on what makes cancer cells start in the first place and what makes it metastasize. We’ve been talking the last few weeks about the basic aspects of cancer and this week we are going to talk about cancer cells going rogue and moving through the body. This is called metastasis, or stage 4 cancer.
#cancer #metastaticcancer #metastasis #stage4 #stageIV #stupidcancer #cancersucks #healtheducation #publichealth #everyonedies #everydayisagift #palliativecare #cancerresources #cancereducation
Get show notes and resources at our website: every1dies.org.
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Understanding Cancer Treatment Options: Surgery
Learn how your treatment plan is decided and terms you may see
We continue our series to help you understand cancer and its treatment. This week we focus on surgery, the oldest form of cancer treatment. Learn about surgery timing, types of cancer surgery, and how NCCN evidence-based guidelines provide a standard treatment path no matter where you are.
In this Episode:
- 02:58 - Wisconsin-Cheese, UFOs, and Booyah Stew
- 04:52 - Anna Quindlen: Get a Life Where You Are Generous"
- 08:06 - Medical Specialists Involved in Cancer Care
- 08:52 - Treatment Decisions, Tumor Board and NCCN Guidelines
- 12:03 - Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Therapy
- 13:13 - Surgery Timing, Reasons and Types
- 18:00 - Discussion - NCCN and Role of Research
- 24:34 - Reeves Keyworth:“On Loved Ones Telling the Dying to ‘Let Go”
- 23:54 - Outro
Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy alone or in combination are the most-common methods used to treat cancer. Specific treatment varies depending on the kind of cancer, the extent of the disease, its rate of progression, and the condition of the person. Surgery alone may not result in a cure and often chemotherapy and/or radiation are needed after surgery. Learn all about surgery and the guidelines your doctor will be following for your treatment.
Get show notes and resources at our website: every1dies.org.
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Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - How to Help Someone Feel Seen, Heard and Understood
Transcript
Hello and welcome to Everyone Dies, a podcast where we talk about serious illness, dying, death, and bereavement. I'm Marianne Matzo, a nurse practitioner, and I use my experience from working as a nurse for 47 years to help answer your questions about what happens at the end of life. And I'm Charlie Navarette, an actor in New York City, and here to offer an every-person viewpoint to our podcast.
We're both here because we believe that the more you know, the better prepared you are to ma
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