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Hanna Cooper is a certified professional coach for do-gooders who want to do more good, and writes a regular blog with leadership insights at www.hannacooper.com  She’s also at work on a memoir about lessons from intersection of death and life.  Connect with her also on Twitter @HannaCooper or Facebook www.facebook.com/HannaCooperPage.

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Your Loving Presence Is Enough: Helping Someone Who’s Hurting

“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.” ~Robert Gary Lee

As the only child of a single parent, my family of two was small and our relationship could be intense.

My southern belle mom, with her stories and easy laugh, her quick wit, and her love of all things literary was the mom who all my high school friends adored and loved—the one who my teenage friends could talk to when they were too angry or irritated with their own mother.

I loved her too, but I also worried about her. A lot. Because I knew a secret about her