1
ARTICLE
Why Taking Care of Your Own Well-Being Helps Others
By Jill Suttie — 2020
Our emotional well-being can benefit the people around us.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
CLEAR ALL
BY TOPIC
BY TEACHER
BY TYPE
FILTER
TOPIC
- Fellowship and Community (79)
- Talk Therapy (79)
- Romantic Relationships (66)
- Spiritual Life (64)
- Well-Being (52)
- Communication Skills (41)
- Anxiety (36)
- Depression (32)
- Neuroscience (32)
- Honoring Emotion (30)
- BIPOC Well-Being (28)
- Self-Discovery (26)
- Stress Management (26)
- Belonging (23)
- Marriage (23)
- Self-Care (23)
- Community Healing (22)
- Connection (22)
- Resilience (22)
- Finding Meaning (21)
- Gratitude (21)
- Inner Life (21)
- Parenting (21)
- Mindfulness (20)
- Self-Reflection Practices (20)
- Compassion (19)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (19)
- Joy (19)
- Self-Development (19)
- Black Well-Being (18)
- Habit Formation (18)
- Meditation (18)
- Neurodiversity (18)
- Search for Purpose (18)
- Self-Healing (17)
- Spiritual Growth (17)
- Stress (17)
- Awareness (16)
- Divorce and Breakup (16)
- Self-Esteem (16)
- Athlete Well-Being (15)
- Buddhism (15)
- Friendship (15)
- Intimacy (15)
- Positive Thinking (15)
- Self-Acceptance (15)
- Spiritual Development (15)
- Activism/Service (14)
- ADD/ADHD (14)
- Cancer (14)
- Fear (14)
- Inner Peace (14)
- Kindness (14)
- Life Challenges (14)
- Love (14)
- Racial Healing (14)
- Self-Worth (14)
- Trauma Healing (14)
- Anger (13)
- Authenticity (13)
- Forgiveness (13)
- Mind-Body Connection (13)
- Physical Health (13)
- Positive Psychology (13)
- Psychology (13)
- Self-Actualization (13)
- Self-Love (13)
- Transformation (13)
- Brain Health (12)
- Building Culture (12)
- God (12)
- Mindfulness Practices (12)
- Vulnerability (12)
- Child’s Emotional Growth (11)
- Loneliness (11)
- Negative Self-Talk (11)
- Neuroplasticity (11)
- Presence (11)
- PTSD (11)
- Religious Experience (11)
- Self-Compassion (11)
- Speaking Your Truth (11)
- Empowerment (10)
- Entrepreneurship (10)
- Goal Setting (10)
- Leadership (10)
- Offering Support to Others (10)
- Optimism (10)
- Racial Justice (10)
- Shame (10)
- Spiritual Practices (10)
- Veteran Well-Being (10)
- Addiction (9)
- Connection with Nature (9)
- Family Dynamics (9)
- Grief (9)
- Habits of Mind (9)
- Inner Strengths (9)
- Letting Go (9)
- Motivation (9)
- Mysticism (9)
- Self-Limiting Beliefs (9)
- Self-Realization (9)
- Setting Limits and Boundaries (9)
- Spiritual Awakening (9)
- Children’s Well-Being (8)
- Christian Mysticism (8)
- Courage (8)
- Human Potential (8)
- Intention (8)
- Mental Health Challenges (8)
- Peak Performance (8)
- Suffering (8)
- Suicide (8)
- Toxic Relationships (8)
- Trust (8)
- Work Relationships (8)
- Acceptance (7)
- Autism (7)
- Breathwork (7)
- Confidence (7)
- Consciousness (7)
- Disconnection (7)
- Empathy (7)
- Exercise (7)
- Faith (7)
- Judaism (7)
- Neuropsychology (7)
- Social Justice (7)
- Spiritual Direction (7)
- Unity (7)
- Withholding (7)
- Women’s Well-Being (7)
- Anger Management (6)
- Christianity (6)
- Chronic Anxiety (6)
- Creative Well-Being (6)
- Criticism and Rejection (6)
- Identity (6)
- Imagination and Creativity (6)
- Military to Civilian Re-entry (6)
- Passive-Aggressive Behavior (6)
- Positive Self-Talk (6)
- Prayer (6)
- Self-Mastery (6)
- Spirituality and Politics (6)
- Tibetan Buddhism (6)
- Trauma (6)
- Values (6)
- Work-Life Balance (6)
- Adaptability (5)
- Aging (5)
- Asking for Help (5)
- Decision Making (5)
- Diet and Nutrition (5)
- Dysfunctional Childhood (5)
- Eating Disorders (5)
- Generosity (5)
- Guilt (5)
- Healthy Eating (5)
- Hope (5)
- Integrative Medicine (5)
- Oneness (5)
- Relationship with Money (5)
- Self-Expression (5)
- Self-Reliance (5)
- Sex (5)
- Social Anxiety (5)
- Social Responsibility (5)
- Spiritual Healing (5)
- Young Adult Well-Being (5)
- Addiction Recovery (4)
- Attachment Theory (4)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (4)
- Freedom (4)
- Global Challenges (4)
- Growth Mindset (4)
- Highly Sensitive People (4)
- Journaling (4)
- Lovingkindness (4)
- Mindfulness Meditation (4)
- Narcissism (4)
- New Relationships (4)
- Nonviolence (4)
- Perception (4)
- Performance Anxiety (4)
- Psychology and Spirituality (4)
- Racial Discrimination (4)
- Racism (4)
- Relationship with Time (4)
- Self-Pressure (4)
- Self-Reckoning (4)
- Shadow (4)
- Sleep (4)
- Somatic Practices (4)
- Spiritual Quest (4)
- Work Challenges (4)
- Yoga (4)
- Abandonment (3)
- Accepting Love (3)
- Body Image (3)
- Building Character (3)
- Child’s ADD/ADHD (3)
- Chronic Pain (3)
- Clinical Depression (3)
- Collaboration (3)
- Cross-Cultural Dynamics (3)
- Curiosity (3)
- Dharma (3)
- Ecospirituality (3)
- Ego Transcendence (3)
- Endurance (3)
- Failure (3)
- Forest Bathing (3)
- Genetics (3)
- Guided Meditation (3)
- Healing Approaches (3)
- Holism (3)
- LGBTQIA Relationships (3)
- Manifestation (3)
- Memoir (3)
- Midlife Crisis (3)
- Non-Duality (3)
- Othering (3)
- Racial Identity (3)
- Rest (3)
- Retirement (3)
- Ritual (3)
- Self-Control (3)
- Sexuality (3)
- Soul Mission (3)
- Storytelling (3)
- The Divine (3)
- Visualization (3)
- Affirmations (2)
- Alcohol Addiction (2)
- Autoimmune Disease (2)
- Awe (2)
- Biofeedback (2)
- Body Positivity (2)
- Burnout (2)
- Child’s Anxiety (2)
- Child’s Trauma (2)
- Chronic Health Conditions (2)
- Climate Change (2)
- Codependency (2)
- Conflict Resolution (2)
- Death and Dying (2)
- Death or Loss of a Loved One (2)
- Doubt (2)
- Economic Justice (2)
- Embodiment (2)
- Environmental Justice (2)
- Facing Own Death (2)
- Faith and Identity (2)
- Female Empowerment (2)
- Focus (2)
- Hero’s Journey (2)
- Hypnosis (2)
- Indigenous Healing Approaches (2)
- Indigenous Well-Being (2)
- Inner Child (2)
- Interdependence (2)
- Intergenerational Trauma (2)
- Karma (2)
- Latinx Well-Being (2)
- LGBTQIA Well-Being (2)
- Longevity (2)
- Masculine/Feminine Dynamics (2)
- Men’s Well-Being (2)
- Moral Philosophy (2)
- OCD (2)
- Panic Attacks (2)
- Philosophical Approaches (2)
- Post-Traumatic Growth (2)
- Poverty/Economic Inequality (2)
- Race and Gender (2)
- Regret (2)
- Science and Spirituality (2)
- Situational Depression (2)
- Social Psychology (2)
- Spirituality and Health (2)
- Sustainability (2)
- A Course in Miracles (1)
- AAPI Well-Being (1)
- Academic Struggles (1)
- Acupressure (1)
- Afterlife (1)
- Art Therapy (1)
- Ayurveda (1)
- Betrayal (1)
- Buddha Nature (1)
- Cannabis/CBD (1)
- Challenges with Teens (1)
- Child’s Autism (1)
- Child’s Challenging Behavior (1)
- Cognitive Psychology (1)
- Collective Trauma (1)
- Compassion Meditation (1)
- Competition (1)
- Conscious Evolution (1)
- Dark Night of the Soul (1)
- Deciding to Have Children (1)
- Despair (1)
- Diamond Approach (1)
- Digital Life (1)
- Domestic Abuse (1)
- Dream Analysis (1)
- Ego (1)
- Emotional Labor (1)
- Energy Healing (1)
- Enlightenment (1)
- Enneagram (1)
- Fate (1)
- Feminism (1)
- Following Bliss (1)
- Gender and Spirituality (1)
- Gender Challenges (1)
- Gender Discrimination (1)
- Goddess (1)
- Grace (1)
- Heartmath (1)
- Higher Calling (1)
- Hospice (1)
- Household Labor (1)
- Identity Shifts (1)
- Imposter Syndrome (1)
- Infidelity (1)
- Inspiration (1)
- Integrity (1)
- Islam (1)
- Jealousy/Envy (1)
- Jewish Renewal (1)
- Jungian Analysis (1)
- Kids and Sports (1)
- LGBTQIA Children (1)
- LGBTQIA Sexuality (1)
- Living as an Empath (1)
- Love Languages (1)
- Lovingkindness Meditation (1)
- Mediums (1)
- Memory (1)
- Mentoring (1)
- Motherhood (1)
- Near-Death Experience (1)
- Nutritional Medicine (1)
- Passion (1)
- Patience (1)
- Performance Pressure (1)
- Personality Disorders (1)
- Plant Spirit Medicine (1)
- Play (1)
- Pregnancy and Childbirth (1)
- Problem Solving (1)
- Productivity (1)
- Psilocybin (1)
- Psychoanalysis (1)
- Raising Daughters (1)
- Slumps (1)
- Social Media Addiction (1)
- Sutras (1)
- The Feldenkrais Method (1)
- Transitions (1)
- Trauma-Informed Therapy (1)
- Unfulfilled Career (1)
- Visions and Hallucinations (1)
- Vitamin Supplementation (1)
- War (1)
- Weight Concerns (1)
- Willpower (1)
- Work Ethic (1)
- Youth Activism (1)
- Zen Buddhism (1)
- Zen Meditation (1)
FILTER
TEACHER
- Evelyn Underhill (8)
- David J. Wolpe (6)
- Ed Diener (6)
- Howard Thurman (6)
- Neil Pasricha (6)
- Rick Hanson (6)
- Esther Perel (5)
- Jeff Foster (5)
- Lisa Feldman Barrett (5)
- The Dalai Lama (5)
- Elaine Aron (4)
- Gabor Maté (4)
- Gary Chapman (4)
- Julie Schwartz Gottman (4)
- Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (4)
- Alan Watts (3)
- bell hooks (3)
- Dan Buettner (3)
- Daniel Amen (3)
- Elizabeth Lesser (3)
- Jan Willis (3)
- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (3)
- John Bradshaw (3)
- Lori Gottlieb (3)
- Marci Shimoff (3)
- Ramani Durvasula (3)
- Terri Cole (3)
- Andrew Solomon (2)
- Andrew Weil (2)
- Brendon Burchard (2)
- Daniel Gilbert (2)
- Daniel J. Siegel (2)
- Edward Hallowell (2)
- Gabrielle Bernstein (2)
- Gary Zukav (2)
- Gay Hendricks (2)
- Gretchen Rubin (2)
- Harville Hendrix (2)
- Helen LaKelly Hunt (2)
- Jacqui Lewis (2)
- James Doty (2)
- John C. Parkin (2)
- John Gottman (2)
- John O’Donohue (2)
- John Sarno (2)
- Karla McLaren (2)
- Lama Surya Das (2)
- Lodro Rinzler (2)
- Mark Nepo (2)
- Martin Seligman (2)
- Matthieu Ricard (2)
- Maya Angelou (2)
- Oprah Winfrey (2)
- Ralph De La Rosa (2)
- Ram Dass (2)
- Russell Brand (2)
- Sharon Strand Ellison (2)
- Tal Ben-Shahar (2)
- Thich Nhat Hanh (2)
- Thubten Chodron (2)
- Tony Gaskins Jr. (2)
- William Bloom (2)
- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2)
- A. H. Almaas (1)
- Abraham Joshua Heschel (1)
- Alain de Botton (1)
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (1)
- Amishi Jha (1)
- Anne Lamott (1)
- Arianna Huffington (1)
- Ashley Neese (1)
- Bertrand Russell (1)
- Bessel van der Kolk (1)
- Biet Simkin (1)
- Blaise Aguirre (1)
- Bruce Lipton (1)
- Camille Helminski (1)
- Carl Jung (1)
- Chan Khong (1)
- Chip Conley (1)
- Connie Zweig (1)
- Daniel Goleman (1)
- Danya Ruttenberg (1)
- David R. Hawkins (1)
- David Steindl-Rast (1)
- Debbie Ford (1)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1)
- Dilip Jeste (1)
- Don Hanlon Johnson (1)
- don Miguel Ruiz (1)
- don Miguel Ruiz Jr. (1)
- Dorothy Firman (1)
- Elaine Pagels (1)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (1)
- Emiliana Simon-Thomas (1)
- Forrest Hanson (1)
- Francoise Bourzat (1)
- Geneen Roth (1)
- Gordon Neufeld (1)
- Heidi Campbell (1)
- Hildegard von Bingen (1)
- Huston Smith (1)
- Hyla Cass (1)
- Iskra Lawrence (1)
- Iyanla Vanzant (1)
- J. Krishnamurti (1)
- Jack Canfield (1)
- Jack Kornfield (1)
- James Baraz (1)
- James H. Cone (1)
- Jana Long (1)
- Jay Shetty (1)
- Jerry M. Ruhl (1)
- Joan Borysenko (1)
- Joan Chittister (1)
- john a. powell (1)
- John Welwood (1)
- Jon Bernie (1)
- Jonathan Haidt (1)
- Karen Casey (1)
- Kathlyn Hendricks (1)
- Kathy Freston (1)
- Kelly McGonigal (1)
- Kim Eng (1)
- Kristin Neff (1)
- Larry Harvey (1)
- Larry Yang (1)
- Leah Guy (1)
- Linda Graham (1)
- Lindo Bacon (1)
- Lise Van Susteren (1)
- Louise Hay (1)
- M. Scott Peck (1)
- Malcolm X (1)
- Maria Sirois (1)
- Marie Forleo (1)
- Melanie Joy (1)
- Mitch Albom (1)
- Mona Polacca (1)
- Moshé Feldenkrais (1)
- Mother Meera (1)
- Nataly Kogan (1)
- Neale Donald Walsch (1)
- Neem Karoli Baba (1)
- Nicole LePera (1)
- Noah Levine (1)
- Paramahansa Yogananda (1)
- Patanjali (1)
- Peter Russell (1)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1)
- Poppy Jamie (1)
- Rich Roll (1)
- Robert A. Johnson (1)
- Ruby Wax (1)
- Sadhguru (1)
- Sam Harris (1)
- Satish Kumar (1)
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1)
- Sharon Salzberg (1)
- Shefali Tsabary (1)
- Shunryu Suzuki (1)
- Stan Tatkin (1)
- Stephanie Y. Evans (1)
- Stephen Covey (1)
- Steven Johnson (1)
- Susan Piver (1)
- Swami Mukundananda (1)
- Sylvia Boorstein (1)
- Tara Brach (1)
- Terry Real (1)
- Thomas Moore (1)
- Viktor E. Frankl (1)
- Yael Shy (1)
- Zainab Salbi (1)
- Zinovia Dushkova (1)
7
People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.4