2001
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
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At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.
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According to the dictionary, to forgive is to stop feeling angry or resentful toward yourself or others for some perceived offense, flaw, or mistake. Keeping that definition in mind, forgiveness becomes a form of compassion.
From the session: "Dark Nights of the Soul" | 2018 Festival of Faiths Camille Helminski is codirector, with her husband, Kabir Helminski, of the Threshold Society of Santa Cruz, California.
Amy talks to best-selling author and podcast host, Nora McInerny, about how toxic positivity causes more pain. She shares how to embrace uncomfortable feelings rather than fight them so you can live a better life.
Episode Two: Who Do You Trust?. Psychologist/Theologian John Bradshaw traces human life through eight stages of psychosocial development (based on the works of Erik Erikson) focusing on the ego needs and strengths of each stage.
Sometimes it may be difficult to see past trauma, to be completely in the moment without excessive thinking or managing past trauma. Eckhart offers a compassionate look at suffering through the lens of awakening.
Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.
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The Buddhist practice of mindfulness first caught on in the West when we began to understand its many practical benefits. Now Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., introduces a practice with even greater life-changing power: compassion.
James R. Doty, M.D. is the founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University of which His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the founding benefactor.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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