"So what do we do about all the pain we see in the world? All the pain we feel our own lives? And why does it seem that our best efforts to help somebody feel better always backfire?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zLCCRT-nE This wonderful piece by Megan Devine is a wise and mind-opening teaching on how to help … Continue reading The way to help someone feel better is to let them be in pain
Contributor Michelle Beks shared this on her instagram this morning, and it struck me as the most fantastic shorthand to potentially diffuse a tough domestic conversation. "Don't blame the lettuce." What happens if we tend ourselves, and each other, as if we were plants (that we wanted to keep alive?!) When you plant lettuce, … Continue reading Don’t blame the lettuce
"If we're going to find our way back to each other, we have to know and understand empathy, because empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri … Continue reading Word of the week: “Empathy.”
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