Our nation is currently in an empathy crisis. Empathy is putting yourself if someone else's shoes according to their reality and their life experiences to the best of your ability. It is acknowledgement of. It's the idea that I get that this is important to you. Brene Brown says that it's communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You're not alone.’ Empathy allows us to connect and is the glue that keeps families, relationships and communities together.