To understand how this works, imagine yourself under stress. You’re behind on a deadline, running late for a meeting, and facing a financial setback that could put your company in jeopardy. While ...

What is compassion? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, compassion is defined as “a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others and a wish to help them.” Source: ...

This is the sixth in a blog series devoted to explaining how the CALM-MO approach to psychological mindfulness reverses neurotic loops. As a recent dissertation clarifies in detail (Miller, 2022; see ...

How can we effectively bring about a more just world? Although it may not be obvious at first glance, self-compassion plays a key role in the quest to end sexism, racism, heterosexism, and other forms ...

I was churning through social media feeds one morning when the phrase tough compassion made me pause mid-scroll. On a podcast episode, psychologist and GGSC founding director Dacher Keltner described ...

In "The Art of Happiness," the Dalai Lama describes compassion as a mental attitude that’s guided by “a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards the other.” When those three ...

In times of crisis and social unrest, compassionate leadership can unify us as human beings, like a glue that binds us together in times of unrest. Without it, we become lonely individuals, facing ...

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 ...