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If employees are feeling overworked and stressed and anxious, what is the solution? Many discussions about burnout inevitably turn to ideas like mindfulness and self-compassion: skills that can be ...

In my last blog entry, Stop Self-Criticism With Compassionate Self-Awareness, I offered a way to help you stop being self-critical. The last part of the approach included advice to respond to yourself ...

Self-compassion is the ongoing practice of relating to yourself kindly and fairly. It is especially helpful during times of stress and suffering. Self-compassion is not kicking yourself when you’re ...

Do you find yourself being harshly self-critical after you’ve made a mistake or failed to meet a personal goal? Familiar self-statements might be: “I can’t seem to do anything right!” or “I’m just not ...

While we may have heard that it’s important to treat ourselves with kindness, sometimes this is easier said than done, especially when we’re under stress. When we’re facing challenging circumstances, ...

In my last column, I shared a story about my own shortcomings with compassion and asked you to reflect with me. At first, only a few of you responded, fewer than usual. It left me wondering if I might ...

Throughout our lives, we all face frustrations, losses, difficulties, and various degrees of trauma. We're constantly being reminded that we live in a ever-changing world that escapes both our control ...

“Clear is kind,” Brené Brown wrote in her book Dare to Lead. As a leader, you communicate clearly and kindly if you want to get to the point directly and immediately, without people having to decipher ...

Empathy is essential for leadership—but constant caregiving can extract a heavy toll on leaders. We even see such leaders within our own teams who struggle to watch them burn themselves out. So how ...