Tag Archive for empathic

Growing Pains

One would assume that being a keen observer of relationships, having a master of art’s degree in communication studies, and being empathic means I am incredibly gifted at saying the right thing all the time.

The assumption would be wrong.

As I have negotiated the unfamiliar land that the Sip and Go Girl media EMPIRE has led me to, I discover being the “gossipy self help” of the World Wide Web can make me over-confident and cheeky.

That’s a sour combo when I fling my gifts in the faces of people as though I own the world of intuition.

I did that with sipandgogirl.com writer Picture Perfect. He submitted an article that, to me, seemed like a mini love letter to the woman who was a subject of it. He spoke highly of her in grand terms. Then, after submitting it, he contacted me worried that readers could identify him.

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the Granada Series. Probably figuring out the identity of Sip and Go Girl writers

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the Granada Series. Probably figuring out the identity of Sip and Go Girl writers

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Fixin’ To Fix People

My friend and fellow journalist Steve sent me a link to an article from match.com. The title?

Why “fixing” a man won’t make him love you.

I don’t know if he was accusing me of being a person who wants to “fix” people in order to make them love me or if he thought the article would be interesting for me because of the work I’m doing as Sip and Go Girl.
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