by Sarah Monk | April 2020 | compassion, Sarah Monk
Yes, it’s my favourite topic! Those who have followed my blogs will know that compassion and self-compassion (SC) are key interests of mine. Perhaps then it is not surprising that I come back to them when the world tilts sideways and we all find ourselves in lockdown...
by Georgina Clarke | December 2019 | compassion
One starfish at a time Never before have we had to draw on our collective human strengths and resources more than now. The country is divided, we are all suffering from Brexit burnout, it seems as if community spirit is dwindling and I sense people feel angry and...
by steve Emery | September 2019 | compassion
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its...
by Helen Golstein | August 2019 | compassion, Health
The Message Cancer Research UK has recently decided to lead an awareness campaign highlighting the risk of obesity to certain types of cancer. They have in fact, plastered amongst other places, London Underground with their message, written to look like a cigarette...
by Helen Golstein | December 2018 | compassion
I have spent a lot of my adult life being puzzled about the whole premise of this thing we call “self-esteem”. What is it actually, and how can we so easily move from having a lot of it, to not having much. It always seemed precarious, as if my appreciation of myself...
by Inge Beckers | November 2018 | compassion, Inge Beckers
Last year, I heard this story about a little girl. She was 6 and went to a local school near her house. One day, in class, her teacher asked the children to make a drawing of a house. So she made this drawing of a beautiful purple house, with a yellow roof, a blue...
