by Georgina Clarke | Dec 15, 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 | Sep 28, 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 | Aug 6, 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 | Dec 3, 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 | Nov 17, 2018 | compassion
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...
by Amy Poole | Sep 10, 2018 | compassion
When being asked to consider questions such as “Who can you rely on?” “Who makes you feel good?” “Who is always there for your emotional needs?” we tend to picture one person in our mind immediately or handpick a few of our peers...
