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Empathy Fatigue Is All too Real

By Sharon Begley — 2020

Feeling empathy for others’ pain is innately human, but it can be stretched too thin. Here’s why we get numbed to horrific events—and how to preserve our tenderness and our desire to help.

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How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.

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Claire Cain Miller
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Help When Your Heart Breaks

Caring for people who are suffering is a loving, even heroic calling, but it takes a toll. Roshi Joan Halifax teaches this five-step program to care for yourself while caring for others.

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Joan Halifax
2018
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Selfless Caregiving May Heighten Vicarious Trauma

Cultivating insight can help caregivers build resilience to loss.

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Elizabeth Young
2021
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Why Do We Walk On By?

It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.

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Marc Ian Barasch
2006
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Empathy Is the Most Important Leadership Skill

You always knew demonstrating empathy is positive for people, but new research demonstrates its importance for everything from innovation to retention.

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Tracy Brower
2021
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The Surprising Downsides of Empathy

There’s a dark side to feeling the emotions of other people. In some cases, it can even lead to cruelty, aggression, and distress.

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Richard Fisher
2020
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Empathy: Overrated?

Be kind, show understanding, do good—but, some scientists say, don’t try to feel others’ pain.

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Spencer Kornhaber
2015
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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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Erin Clabough
2019
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Three Ways to Raise Empathic Kids So They Become Compassionate Adults

Considering how to make the children in our lives better people helps us reflect on how we ourselves can be more compassionate.

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Patricia Rockman, Evan Collins
2019
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How to Raise Empathetic Kids: 5 Simple Things All Parents Should Do

Raising an empathetic and kind kid is a beautiful thing, but it’s also important to prepare kids for the real world.

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Lizzy Francis
2020
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