The Importance of Empathy

If you're going to have a healthy relationship with yourself, there needs to be an element of trust. The skill of self-trust marries the skill of acceptance and affection and validation and security all together into one beautiful pile of trust. Next, something that we've been talking about in my house among my family members a lot is the skill of empathy. Here's what I know about adults with ADHD. We often lack self-empathy. It's really hard to empathize with someone that you don't accept and it's hard to empathizing with someone for which you feel no affection.