By Eve Ekman — 2020
A Q&A with Tara Brach about offering radical compassion to yourself and others.
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CLEAR ALL
Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity.
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If we can process our regrets with tenderness and compassion, we can use these hard memories as a part of our wisdom bank.
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We become more effective agents of change when we are nurturing our own happiness and personal growth.
Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.
The Latinx community is just as vulnerable to mental illness as the general population, but faces disparities in treatment.
Eso es para locos. Esta generación... siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.
“When I started my undergraduate degree in psychology, my grandmother said she was afraid I would become pagal (“crazy”) because of it.
I’m learning that my challenge isn’t just to unlearn what my family has taught me, but to put myself in situations that would reaffirm the new lessons I was trying to replace the old ones with.
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I am a black woman in deep pain. I’m watching the ongoing violence against my community and knowing that we are also dying at higher rates from this virus. What can we do about promoting our own healing?
Forgiveness can be incredibly difficult. Robert Enright explains where to start.