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Empathy vs. Sympathy

Communication process, we prefer empathy because it helps people connect more deeply to their own and another’s pain, and helps resolve issues with clarity and ease. Empathy is a profound healing technique. Be aware of when you are giving someone sympathy rather than empathizing today. This trainer tip is an excerpt from Mary Mackenzie's book, Peaceful Living, available from PuddleDancer Press....
When We Need Empathy the Most

just by being heard and loved. My client arrived in a great deal of pain, and I loved how soft and tender I could be with her because I was acutely aware of how painful life can feel, and how healing love can be. On a scale of 1 to 10, how is your emotional bank account? If it’s lower than you like, consider what you can do right now to bring it closer to balance. Everyone in your life, and most...
Living Our Values

most important thing is being true to ourselves, not winning, not being right, and certainly not being the biggest and meanest. Identify your most important value today. Then live it. Notice how healing this can feel even just after one day. This trainer tip is an excerpt from Mary Mackenzie's book, Peaceful Living, available from PuddleDancer Press. Keywords: values integrity Mary Mackenzie
Making A Connection In A Difficult Situation

violence, the most effective method I have ever found to defuse a conflict is to listen deeply to the underlying needs of the people in conflict. Nothing is swifter, more direct, or more healing. Imagine how you would feel if your partner told you that she had invited her family to visit for a week during your vacation. You could be furious with her because you thought you would spend your...
Living Compassion in an Ever-Changing World

offered before his passing in November of 2021. It is an intermediate course whose purpose is to deepen our conscious connection to our own vital life force, to develop skills that support inner healing, and to grow and strengthen daily practices that allow us to truly live life to the fullest. The primary focus of this program is to support the development of the consciousness of our Life...
What to do When Racial Oppression and Privilege Collide

from the Global Majority who spoke out — offering them the opportunity to share more about their experience and make any requests of the group. This would bring the focus back to supporting healing and raising awareness about these challenging interpersonal interactions. This is just one of a number of approaches I might now take as a facilitator in a similar situation. A facilitator is often...
Repairing Relationships with Empathy

and vulnerability, we can transform conflict into an opportunity for deeper understanding and stronger relationships. If you enjoy this snippet then you might also enjoy the full course, Healing Trauma, Finding Forgiveness Partners, Parents, Children, and Self Link to the full course here Keywords: Sarah Peyton captions searchable transcript relationships repair self connection empathy...
Embracing Your Emotions

Access this complete 3 session course In his poem, "The Guest House," Rumi invites us to welcome all of our emotions as "guides from beyond." This short 3 session course, discover how to honor the wisdom that anger, fear, shame, depression and other BIG emotions have for you. This class is all about emotional literacy, emotional intelligence and understanding your emotions for the messengers...
How to Survive the Holidays

For many, spending time with relatives over the holidays may be challenging. In addition to the love and care we may feel, family gatherings can bring up old hurts or expose painful differences. How many family meals have been marred by tense silence or devolved into harsh argument? For me, learning to find balance, authenticity and care in my conversations with family members was a key turning...
Loving Our Role as Parent

Trainer Tip There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. —Agatha Christie Parenthood is a paradox. If you do your job well, your children leave you. I met an English woman once who told me that for the first twenty-four hours of her son’s life, he was her child. She savored that first day with him intensely,...