WHAT IS EMPATHY?
Jacob and the Cloak is, at its core, a story about empathy. Empathy is more than sympathy. Much more. Sympathy is an exterior emotion. It stands at a safe distance and observes but often times doesn’t truly seek to understand. Inversely, when we express empathy, we are essentially reaching out to connect their story to our story in a very organic and authentic way. It is an interior, heart-led process because it is the process, the practice of seeing ourselves in them, and in their choices, struggles and, many times, failures.
We know how hard that thing was for us and because we know that, we know, truly, how hard this must be for them. And that honest acknowledgment, that humble realization that we too have been in those very same hard places, is what creates empathy. And it is a beautiful language of love that transcends all borders.
– Scott Taylor
"Things are not always as they seem. Love pays attention."
"When we rush to solutions, we rush past the person too."
PRAISE FOR JACOB & THE CLOAK
"Shame and fear burden us more than trauma could, but there is hope."
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