Do you want a week of deeper human connection? I do. Here are a few healing words and questions to tuck into the back of your head to get you started:

• I will drop everything and spend as much time as you want listening to you.
• I will hear you out no matter how long it takes.
• Nothing you divulge will shock me or change how I view you.
• What’s holding you back from achieving your goals?
• I never expected you to be perfect in the first place.
• Most people have five or seven things they are really good at – please tell me yours.
• Please tell me about all the people who have really loved you and have expected nothing in return.
• Tell me about the five most important changes you have made in your life.
• Tell me about the most important decisions you have made.
• Tell me about the times in your life when you felt most purposeful and loved.
• Our friendship is about who we both are and not what we may have or not done in the past.
• What can I do more, what can I do less, to improve our friendship?