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  • How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations
  • By: Kathryn Mannix
  • Narrated by: Kathryn Mannix
  • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (96 ratings)
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Summary

Most of us have a conversation we’re avoiding.        

From the best-selling 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. 

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 careers 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 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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Kathryn Mannix (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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"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 Perry)

"Powerful, humane and wise." (Julia Samuel)

"Everyone should read it." (Nigella Lawson)

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Utterly wonderful.

I loved everything about it from the author's lovely narration to the absorbing stories. This book has changed me.

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Life-Changing Book

If you are in a caring profession or just want to find everyday conversations easier this book is for you. Provides a real and usable framework for those conversations as well as ideas and skills that are useful to everyone, everywhere. The whole thing is illustrated by illuminating and relatable examples. Fantastic in every way.

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Essential listening

Lots of important lessons easily understood through the examples which are heartbreaking and brought me to tears many times. Will recommend to everyone.

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Listening, just became a little easier.

Loved listening to the author convey so much more than the words...

The understanding that is so much deeper and richer than scratching the surface. Yet it is just that it is a begining for everyone, as suits their recap and starting point.

There are beautifully crafted expressions that lift the words off the pages. As if their arrival with the ear is coordinated, like birds in flight together, each arriving momentarily delayed from one another, but appropriately so.

This builds the learning, appreciation and resonance with the wisdom released.

An infusion of many years and peoples, struggles, gifts, experiences, where each is a lifetimes work... beautifully and humbly united one with another.

If ever the expression that something is greater than the sum of the parts is true, it is of this.

A must read, that awakens our need for tenderness that restores our response to be more human with one another.

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Clear, considered and relevant for us all

I liked the humility of the author who has such a deep understanding of of the need to be heard. The telling of stories is such a well-tested means of teaching and making complex topics so relatable and relevant. Thank you so much.

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ALL ABOUT LISTENING, INCLUDING TO YOURSELF.

Really excellent book. I'm a carer whose been involved in many situations of grief and crisis, and have plenty of times made the mistake of trying to find 'the right words' when what I really needed to do - for the benefit of others and myself - was simply to listen. I'd recommend this book to professionals and let, anyone simply wanting a reminder of what makes us human and able to feel positively connected with others in this increasingly challenging world.

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Wonderful book

A wonderful informative and supportive book. I thoroughly recommend and found it helpful and loved listening to the author

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Powerful, useful and kind.

Kathryn Mannix narrates her book in such a gentle way. She is not frightened to 'own' her past mis communications and teaches us all valuable lessons on how to be more thoughtful, kinder and better human beings.

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A basic life skill everyone should have

Great presentation, great content, great stories, delivered in just the right tone and voice to make it useful and enjoyable.

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For everyone

some of the stories a hazardous listen whilst driving! moving , insightful and motivating.

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