A core value that many people have is compassion. Similar to kindness, compassion urges people to care for others, but while kindness is the action of sympathizing for others, compassion is the ...

Here are four signs that you may be missing out on self-compassion, and what science says about how to change that.

“Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice of an echo. Gratitude follows grace like thunder lightning.” — Karl Barth Gratitude is easier in the ...

Key Points: Compassion reflects a sensitivity to the suffering of another, coupled with a desire to help. Yet it opens the way for a new "broaden and build" response to stress, fostering both ...

In the last few months, I have spoken with dozens of Jewish students. The picture that emerges from all of these meetings is a sad one. The disruptions that we have experienced in the last half a year ...

In most Western countries, professional standards dictate that physicians should practice medicine with compassion. Patients also expect compassionate care from physicians because it represents a ...

I met Kim De Serpa in 1997 when we both worked at Child Protective Services, for the County of Santa Cruz. As recent Social Work graduates, we were just learning what our chosen careers were all about ...

“During difficult times, and these are difficult times, it’s compassion before curriculum, grace before accountability. And grant yourself the same," said author and educator Rick Wormeli. I didn’t ...

There has been a dramatic change in public attitudes to the gay lifestyle in the last 70 years. For example, in the 1950s President Eisenhower declared that homosexuals were a danger to national ...