I try to see the best in everyone. But this election, it has been nearly impossible for me to be kind and understanding of everyone
Read More »Lessons in Empathy
I do not think you need a degree in psychology to recognize that our society is experiencing an empathy crisis.
Read More »When we walk the halls of a hospital – An Integrative Personal Story, Part 8
As a Lay Chaplain, with empathy having opened the door and now standing or seated beside the bed of someone less a stranger, I continue to listen with deep attentiveness.
Read More »When we walk the halls of a hospital – An Integrative Personal Story, Part 7
I ask myself, was I able to effectively engage this diversity, to the extent I did, because I had empathy – somehow already endowed with it? Or did my empathy grow as I continued to engage diversity, in high school, college and professionally – is empathy somehow learned?
Read More »When we walk the halls of a hospital – An Integrative Personal Story, Part 4
Each day, as I got out of my bed, I found myself walking the halls of the University of Washington Hospital, hooked up to life-sustaining IVs. As I passed by opened doors, anything but oblivious, I gazed into the rooms of perfect strangers. Each was on their own journey of crisis, some getting better, others, not so.
Read More »Does empathy have its limits?
Is it possible to run out of empathy?
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