Tag: compassion

The best way to prevent suicide is not with suicide hotlines and counselors. The best way to prevent suicide is create a more compassionate society that helps people in pain before they get to the point of wanting to kill themselves.

Tenderness is pain and gentle response to pain.

Skin hunger is the desire to be touched. Amae is something more. It’s what we feel when we want nothing more than to be held in the arms of someone who loves us,… more emotion Amae

True compassion fatigue occurs among those who work regularly with people who are suffering from trauma.

What you feel is the consequence of understanding what another person has endured and has felt, realizing the transformation that such an experience can provoke.