Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

As artificial intelligence becomes more emotionally fluent, we are being asked to reconsider what empathy really is. Why is ...

The idea of “self-compassion” has exploded since the early 2000s, when Kristin Neff, a psychologist in Austin, first described a three-pronged approach: Being kind to yourself, particularly around ...

Compassion-focused therapy helps people be kinder to themselves and others. CFT works by combining compassion training with mindfulness and other techniques. Compassion-focused therapy can help with ...

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more astounding miracle than walking on water." The word she used for meeting the ...

Empathy is essential for leadership—but constant caregiving can extract a heavy toll on leaders. We even see such leaders within our own teams who struggle to watch them burn themselves out. So how ...

Self-compassion is the ongoing practice of relating to yourself kindly and fairly. It is especially helpful during times of stress and suffering. Self-compassion is not kicking yourself when you’re ...

March 8th- 4:30pm- 6:30pm Workshop on Compassion: What it is/not, how it heals, from the individual, work, to global facilitated by Daniel Martin, Ph.D. Join us for a fun and deep two-hour workshop as ...

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