What to Do When Someone Cries
As a psychotherapist, my work frequently involves watching people cry. I probably spend as much on Kleenex every year as other professionals spend on printer paper. Far from being fazed by tears, I welcome them because I know how healing they can be. But that hasn’t always been the case… A Short History of My Awkward Cluelessness I entered adulthood as the original Uncomfortable Witness. Since we didn’t cry in my home when I was …