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  • Being a Friend

    Posted 4/14/2013 by hhill
      Tomorrow, I promise, I will find another theme for the day's entry. There has been some similarity over the past few days as I have written and shared wonderful essays about friendships and relationships and supporting one another. This is one more. From Lisa Boncheck Adams, whom I have surely quoted before, in the Huff Post, this is directed at those who want to be our friends. This could be another thing to xexox and have handy to give to people--either before or after they put their foot in their mouth. Read more... Comments (0)

  • How Not to Say the Wrong Thing

    Posted 4/12/2013 by hhill
      First, a thousand thank yous to Carolyn who sent me this link. I have read many articles about how to support a friend in trouble, and even written a few that attempted to make good suggestions. This is the best. Susan Silk has developed a simple system for how to support your friend and how to take care of yourself. She calls it the "RIng Theory" and the basic plan is: Support In, Dump Out. That will make sense when you read it. Read more... Comments (0)

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Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW, OSW-C is the Manager of Oncology Social Work at BIDMC. For more than thirty years, her daily work at BIDMC has been primarily focused on supporting women with breast cancer. A nationally known writer and speaker, she was the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's first Hatcher Survivorship Professor. In 1993, and again in 2005, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and went through the standard treatments of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal therapy. These experiences have given her great credibility with her patients and transformed her life's work to her life. Ms. Schnipper lives gratefully with her husband in an ancient farmhouse outside of Boston and spends as much time as possible in a water front cottage on Mt Desert Island. Between them, they have five adult children and seven grandchildren; she claims biological responsibility for two and three of them.

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