when someone is drowning, that is not the time to teach them how to swim this is not the time to yell at them for stepping in the water because in that moment they don’t need lessons, they need help. they need you to reach out your hand and help them they need to know someone sees them that someone cares enough to pull them out first you can talk about how to stay afloat and swim another time but in the middle of the storm? what they need most is compassion, not correction. a