Compassion, kindness and other matters

The world since ISIS and then Trump, seems to have become more openly divisive. There are people on Facebook or other social media sites, who openly state that if their ‘friends’ voted for him they will be blocked, or if their friends didn’t vote for him, they will be blocked. I’ve not before seen such…

Pain, compassion, blogging and therapy

In an article by Jeff Goins titled The purpose of pain, his final comments are; “Something transformational happens when we go to places of deep pain and let our hearts be stirred. Compassion, a word of which I am quite fond, literally means “to suffer with.” It would make sense that compassion needs pain to…