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Tag: empathy

Tell my mistakes to me, not to others. Because my mistakes are to be corrected by me, not by others
Culture

Shame & taking responsibility

And a healing plan for this type of overwhelm below. I was talking with family the other day, and heard myself saying, “I feel ashamed all the time.”…

July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 · 5 min read

Body & Health

Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk

If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don’t go to war with it, up-level it into compassion.…

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 · 4 min read

Culture

Modern myths

Subtitle: Survival is only for those that can perish. I often wonder about the grand mythic strokes being written across America these last few years. They are big.…

August 10, 2019April 21, 2025 · 3 min read

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