Dianne Whitford
Happy 2020! The new year is here and in an effort to stretch ourselves this year, we’re looking at what’s in our backpacks that we want to unload. From family relationships to failed relationships...
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Heather AbbeCBP S2E5: Helping Others Shine
This week’s episode was inspired by a presentation I heard last month about helping others shine, and the comment that “helping others shine doesn’t decrease your own shine.” In this episode, I...
CPB S2E2: Counting Your Contributions
Counting your contributions – your wins – can have a huge impact on your emotional resilience, your confidence, and your sense of self worth. Show yourself some self-compassion and spend a few minutes each...
Social Media and Empathy
I really thought I knew how this was going to play out. Did you look at the title and think to yourself, “I know where is going. ” I thought when I started researching whether empathy is affected by social...
Critical Thinking: It’s Not Just All Siskel and Ebert
I’ve probably dated myself with the reference to Siskel and Ebert (famous film critics from the seventies and eighties). Oh well! It is still appropriate! In contrast to Siskel and Ebert, critical thinking doesn’t...
Self-Compassion Is Not Ice Cream
Guess what? Self-compassion isn’t eating ice cream when you feel depressed. Who knew? Self-compassion is something I really struggle with. I find myself several times a day saying things to myself like, “Why...
Journaling Challenge: Week Three
I hope you’ve been following along with our 30 day journaling challenge. Dianne wrote a great piece on how journaling is beneficial and helpful to achieving your goals. You should check that out before reading...
Introduction to Empathy: A Crash Course
Empathy is a complex topic! Today will be an introduction to empathy and then we will dig more into it in the following weeks. At its simplest, empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of someone else...
Empathy and Enabling: Hand Up or Hand Out?
As you may know, we started our new theme on Monday: empathy! I’m really excited about this theme, as I feel there’s a lot of room to explore the subject. Obviously, being able to empathize with another...
