Conversations in Compassion

There are lots of ways to celebrate recovery; noticing hope, noticing courage, noticing the sparkle in someone’s eyes as they have gone from despair, shame, and fear to possibility.

Curiosity and articulation about the process of redefining masculinity, and the hope that we can have the skills and compassion to hold each other as individuals, as males, and as a community with empathy.

How any kind of change for an individual, a family, a community, or a country comes from the connectedness, the light within, and how that gets moved aside for outcomes. How to find hope in the face of this chaos.

One year into an awakening where a woman lets go and realizes that she can go and find a group of people; she can grow and fill in the parts of herself she is missing.

From looking inside of herself to providing patience and radical acceptance with people. Learning to be in love with social work and helping others from a place where she is not exhausted and can come from a place of love.

What can a heart-centered leader do in the face of exhaustion? How to hold the idea of rest when there is so much suffering?

A woman loves, for thirty-one years, a person who was attached to power and control over the destiny of his life. Her belief was that if she extended her power over him, somehow he would get better.

A conversation about one man’s experience in a men’s mutual support group.

Leaning into finding as much help as possible when confronted with the duality between the history of your trauma history with the desire to disassociate and the wish to connect even deeper with people, children, and partners.

Our own disease or distress can have meaning and be a kind of medicine that can help us better understand ourselves and what we have gone through.