Empathy Enabler Mugs

"I've got a patient who needs to chat to someone. . . Have you got anyone who's completed the 'verbal communication with patients in a personal, supportive but not disempowering' course?"

"Will work for new liver"

"I think the most rewarding part of caring for elderly parents is when they call you because they don't want to bother the 9-1-1 people."

"Thanks for walking a mile in my shoe but it's beginning to hurt now."

"I can't decide if we're good people who are bad at communicating, or monsters who communicate perfectly."

"Postwar is hell."

Prejudice/Empathy

'I get the feeling you're wagging your tale on the outside and crying on the inside.'

"You can't possibly know how I feel. Everybody likes you."

"We hope seeing a marriage counselor maybe could make one of us less stubborn!"

"You think you're a monster because you have poor self image."

"Now that I've swung back to depression, I'm truly sorry for what I did when I was manic."

Can't even hold signs well.

The Female Brain and The Other One

'The good news is that it's not your fault.'

"What a sad species humans are!"

World Hunger Conference.

'This is Martins, the office I was telling you about. She's got a real knack for texting people down from window ledges!'

"We're not laughing at you, sweetie. We're laughing at something you don't understand."

'We finally learned to communicate, and he's worse than I thought he was!

"Matt, you look like you just saw a ghost who fired you!"

"Don't judge me until you've walked a mile on my medication."

"Cops don't get me. Sure, they got me – but they'll ever get me."

Wife takes husband's place in the pub

Couple

'To foster a sense of trust, I always like to end each session with a group hug.'

"Naturally you have trouble getting in touch with your innermost feelings. You're a hollow choclate bunny."

"We'll soon have you sorted out, Mr. Fenton."

"Any improvement since I brought the balloon?"

'You know me, I'm a problem solver. I listen. I flirt with understanding. I move on.'

Bring your problems to work day.

Warring parents

"I don’t understand why they aren’t happy, we give them challenging, demanding work and let them do it 80 hours a week!"

Unhappy clown.

'How many are just staying together for the kids? Ok, that's good, very good.'