How to Cultivate a Heart for Healthy Family Conversation




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How to Cultivate a Heart for Healthy Family Conversation


Your family’s ability to have or not have loving, caring and authentic conversations reveals a lot about the overall health of your home life.

When I was a boy and my mom was dying of cancer, everybody around me was afraid to bring up the subject. At the time, I was 9 years old. The subject was so taboo. In fact, nobody even told me my mother was in her last days. I knew she was sick, but assumed she would recover.

As she deteriorated, they wouldn’t even let me see her.

Given the way I was shut out of my mother’s illness, her death came as a complete shock to me. My mom was there one minute and gone the next. I never even had a moment to tell her how much I loved her. That remains one of the greatest regrets of my life.


As a result of this profound experience, my wife and I have worked hard to cultivate an atmosphere of healthy dialogue in the
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