7 Tips to Work from Home Without Burning Out
To lessen burnout, you can practice compassion for yourself and your co-workers. What does that look like when you’re working from home? Here are some ideas.
What is Self-Compassion?
I’ve been facilitating courses on compassion for over eight years now, and there’s one thing that keeps coming up again and again: Most of us…
Compassion in Action
A kind stranger recently posted the below drawing on social media, and he tagged Compassion It and me. The Chopra.com article, Compassion in Action: 15 Easy…
2020 Highlights (yes, we had a few)
Hindsight might be 2020; however, like you, Burrell and I had no way of anticipating what the year would bring. We could never have predicted that…
“You Picked a Hell of a Week for Your Retreat”
My friend Brett’s text message to me this morning sums it up… “You picked a hell of a week for your retreat.” Boy, ignorance…
For Workplace Leaders: 11 Tips to Promote Self-Compassion
My teammate, Burrell Poe, and I recently led a 90-minute self-compassion workshop for 20 leaders of a large organization. We asked them prior to the…
How to Practice Compassion During a Divisive Time
It’s not always easy to “compassion it.” Especially when the divisiveness created by our two-party political system takes the “united” out of the United States of…
Inviting Your Enemies – or Howard Stern – to Tea
What Happens When You Invite Your Enemies to Tea? Howard Stern entered an elevator and found himself face-to-face with Regis Philbin – a man he had…
2019 Highlights
As I reflect back on Compassion It’s eighth year, I can’t help but feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment and joy. Here’s why: 1 – We…
How to Disconnect to Connect
I don’t know about you, but every year the holiday shopping ads seem to appear earlier and earlier. I get emails about Black Friday, Giving Tuesday* and Cyber Monday, and they tell me, “Click here! Go to our website, and spend your money with us!”