Linda and Charlie Bloom, Psych Central: “Mindfulness is not something that is only done in the meditation hall, it is…
Ed Halliwell, Mindful: In my last blog, I wrote that I had been experimenting with a slightly adapted working definition…
This morning I shared some resources I'd put together on the subject of self-compassion, but I just realized that there's…
"How to stop beating yourself up" is a workshop I'm teaching at the New York Insight Meditation Center on November…
Mindful.org: Scientific evidence shows that we can train the brain to feel more compassion—for others and for ourselves. Another science-based…
Kristine Crane, Huffington Post: Shrimati Bhanu Narasimhan, a petite Indian woman wrapped in a bright fuchsia sari, has a soft…
Can you stay open to the pain of others? Humans are an empathic, compassionate, and loving species, so it is…
In the mid-1970s I worked as a tenants’ rights activist with poor families in Worcester, Massachusetts. Through organizing tenants’ unions…
Emma Seppala, emmaseppala.com: Happiness – it’s an inalienable right, it’s even in the US constitution. You see it everywhere from…
On the Boston Review, Paul Bloom has a provocative article titled "Against Empathy." It's not advocating an uncompassionate approach to…