What is self empathy and why do we need it?

Tune in to see how Aristotle defined self love, how we compare it to today's concept of self empathy, and how we can apply self empathy to better ourselves within a divided and isolated community.

Topics include processing traumatic memories, moral injury from the 2020 pandemic, Arthur Brooks on loving our enemies, my personal & vulnerable confession of contempt, the Wisconsin Empathy Project chapter at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, applying self empathy in light of informal OCD diagnosis.

*Note - I am not a psychologist or expert on this topic*

References

Brooks, A. C. (2019). Love your enemies: How decent people can save America from the culture 

of contempt. Broadside Books.

Neff, K.D., Dahm, K.A. (2015). Self-compassion: What it Is, what it does, and how it relates to 

mindfulness. In: Ostafin, B., Robinson, M., Meier, B. (eds) Handbook of mindfulness and 

self-regulation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2263-5_10

Sherman, N. (2014). Recovering lost goodness: Shame, guilt, and self-empathy. Psychoanalytic 

Psychology, 07369735, 20140401, 31, 2.

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