Are you Feeling?

To better facilitate healthy communication we are given certain frameworks to express our needs and ask others for help. One follows this model: "Are you feeling _________ because _______? Would it help if I ________?" This allows you to guess at what the other person may be going through while giving them the space to explore their emotions and feel supported. Hopefully, they may suggest a way in which you can help.

For example, I might question, "Are you feeling irritable because you need to fart? Would it help if I made you some beans?"
Whereupon my Dad may respond, "Why yes, I am. Beans are unnecessary; can you pull my finger, instead?"

Like I said, treatment really is a blessing.