by Kate | Sep 24, 2025 | Chronic healing, chronic illness, compassion, kind promises
Living with chronic illness is a challenge. In addition to physical sensations, like pain and fatigue, we feel the emotional uproar of fear and anger. Sometimes we also feel embarrassment and/or guilt. It’s easy to think “I should be handling this better!” We add...
by Kate | Sep 16, 2025 | compassion
Practicing compassion with lovingkindness meditation Last month’s theme was love. This month’s theme is compassion. What’s the difference? Love is a deep affection for someone or something, born of connection to them. Compassion is a broader feeling of concern for...
by Kate | Sep 10, 2025 | compassion
Before writing this blog post, I listened to Joy Lab podcast 101 – compassion and mental health. Cultivating a good heart. Psychologist Henry Emmons tells the story of sage and a young man. The sage was sitting beside a clear mountain lake. The young man approached...
