Tamar Lechter Leadership coaching, llc

We've all had that moment of feeling stuck. Someone we know is hurting and we just don't know what to do. Reaching out to a close friend is easy, but what about an acquaintance? What about a casual friend who just lost a baby? A colleague who was diagnosed with cancer? These awful things happen and we often feel conflicted about the appropriateness of how to reach out and what to say. Often, we make assumptions about people's needs. We assume that they don't want to talk abou

I recently was listening to the podcast Hidden Brain. The host, Shankar Vedantam, was interviewing Eli Finkel, a social psychologist at Northwestern University, about the shifts in marriage over the years, and what marriage looks like today. Finkel talks about the change in expectations going into a marriage. What once may have been a partnership based on tending the farm, or raising children to support you, developed into partnerships of love, and then became an all-encompas