I just read one of the best conceptualizations of compassion that I’ve ever read outside of the Holy Scripture: Hebrew [chesed]: To love tenderly, to have mercy, compassion upon anyone “Compassion is ...

Many of today’s parents and teachers came of age in the 1980s and 1990s — a time when the self-esteem movement was in its zenith. Self-esteem was supposed to be a panacea for a variety of social ...

Mindfulness practice can increase compassion toward yourself. There are various benefits to practicing self-compassion, including improving your overall well-being. You may feel down on yourself ...

This is the edited transcript of a talk Greater Good's Jeremy Adam Smith gave to the nurses of UC Berkeley Health Services on surviving compassion fatigue. I'm going to warn you: This is a somewhat ...