As RU OK? day comes up this week, I’m thinking about the power of conversations.

As humans we long to (and need to) connect – and yet so many people feel like they are not really seen or heard or even truly known.

As a generation, we’ve gotten into some bad habits with conversations – either we don’t have them at all (text, tweet, message). Or we have them when we’re drinking (dulling our senses and anaesthetising our feelings). Or we’re distracted (the to-do list, phone, technology, tv, music, driving, noise).

Too often we skim the surface and don’t deeply listen. Or take the time to activate our intuition and empathy – to feel what the other person feels. And then what happens? We (and they) can feel lonely and isolated and ultimately misunderstood.

When it’s a good conversation, it can change everything. For the better.

I hope you have some conversations that matter this week.

And I hope you’re OK x