If employees are feeling overworked and stressed and anxious, what is the solution? Many discussions about burnout inevitably turn to ideas like mindfulness and self-compassion: skills that can be ...

In this grounded theory study, palliative cancer patients' understanding and experiences of compassion were explored through semistructured interviews to provide a critical perspective on the nature ...

Compassion is a strange thing. By definition, compassion invokes sympathy, pity, and perhaps even sadness for others’ misfortunes or sufferings. Compassion often drives people with a sense of desire ...

Merriam-Webster defines "compassion" as: "sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it." It is commonly felt that humans yearn for compassion. We need ...

Have you ever tried to help someone only to see things get worse? Has your compassion for a self-destructive person ever led to more self-destruction? The problem is that the brain learns from rewards ...

A Native-American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf ...

Life can get pretty overwhelming. Especially after this past year in COVID-19, with constantly changing schedules, having to be "on" and ready at any moment, as well as the increase in ...