Loving Acts of Kindness
Practicing intentional loving-kindness builds our compassion-ability.
Creating Compassionate Connections
Blog by Lisa Boesen
Archive for the ‘Compassion’ Category
Resetting Our Compassion Compass
“Sometimes you have to look hard at a person and remember he’s doing the best he can. He’s just trying to find his way, just like you.”
Sharing Your Heart with the World
Compassion, in its purest form, is sharing your heart with the world through the expression of care for an individual, a cause, or in the case of earthquakes and tsunamis, a country. Do you feel safe sharing your heart with the world? Does your heart follow you on gentle puffs of empathy and acts of kindness?
Compassionately Resilient
Developing resiliency is an ongoing process of experiencing, adapting, recovering, acquiring knowledge and experiencing life again with a new perspective.
Connecting with Heart
My mother truly loved to go to her outpatient cancer center for her radiation and chemotherapy treatments. She would rave about the “girls at the front desk” and how wonderful the nurses and staff were in the treatment area. Although my mother had Stage IV pancreatic cancer, she never gave up hope a miracle would occur, [...]
Compassionate Civility
In Sunday’s Houston Chronicle, Brene´Brown discussed the adult addiction to reality tv and its potential tie to bullying behavior in children. In essence, uncivil behaviors such as humiliation, gossiping, name-calling, derisiveness, screaming and exclusion are glamorized in television and thus may be considered generally, acceptable behaviors. She continues her concern regarding the impact of these [...]
Excuse Me, I’d Like to Have a Word with….myself
A reminder to practice self-compassion during our daily drive to help others.
Building Your Personal Community
Networking can be challenging. The very word can create fear and anxiety and limit our effectiveness in truly building relationships.
Care, Communicate, Connect With Soul
Self-awareness and awareness of others is the framework for creating compassionate connections with others – to respect each soul’s humanity, the gifts, talents, feelings, the dignity of our colleagues, our team, and our customers
Leaving Our Compassion Footprint
In this day and age, we are becoming more aware of our environmental lasting impression – our carbon footprint. We can actually go on line and calculate our very own carbon footprint and instantly understand the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our daily lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating, meals, and transportation etc. We make an impact on the world by what we use in regards to fossil fuels, in what we use and waste. We also make an impact when we connect with others, what we use and waste. And we make a lasting impression – a compassion footprint.
