Tag: compassion
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Traumatic Life Events and Compassion Focused Healing Approaches
Traumatic life event refers to significant event that bring actual or threatened physical and/or psychological harm to us or someone close to us. For example, natural disaster or accident that leads to injury or death, physical violence, sexual violence etc. Traumatic event can lead to intrusive re-experiencing, hypervigilance, avoidance behaviours and emotional distress. The symptoms…
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Coping with Lost Friendships: Emotional Healing
Who doesn’t want to be remembered and loved? It hurts when you drift apart with a friend and later realize that this friend had found a new social circle and together they seem to be having fun and doing all the things you used to do together. You try to recall why you drifted apart…
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The Power of Forgiveness: Healing Beyond Hurt
As a child, we were advised to forgive the sibling who accidentally broke our toy or the classmate who said mean words to us, because that is the right thing to do. When there is conflict, adults usually ask us to say sorry and explain that we should forgive others’ transgression. Growing up, even the…
Compassionate Living Psychology 