by Lisa Boesen | Jun 7, 2011 | Blog Posts, Compassion, Empathy, Self-Compassion, Uncategorized
The concept of compassionate thoughts is responding primarily to suffering. In Eastern thought, true happiness is based on two concepts – desiring no suffering or pain in our own lives and wishing no pain or suffering for others. Experiencing our own pain or...
by Lisa Boesen | Apr 7, 2011 | Blog Posts, Compassion, Empathy, Encouragement
What would happen if compassion was your internal compass? We are human and it’s natural to try to define and rationalize what we see, or think we see. A simple action step for resetting our compassion compass is suspending judgment – not jumping to conclusions,...
by Lisa Boesen | Mar 21, 2011 | Blog Posts, Compassion, Empathy, Encouragement, Kindness, Patient Experience, Patient Satisfaction, Uncategorized
Almost every Saturday morning, weather permitting, my husband and I grab our coffee and head out to local garage sales. We love the hunt for treasures and the anticipation of never knowing exactly what we will find. We are a symbiotic team of form and function. For...
by Lisa Boesen | Feb 2, 2011 | Blog Posts, Civility, Compassion, Empathy, Encouragement, Managing Change, Resiliency
It’s 22 in Houston, TX and we are having purposeful, rolling electrical outages to manage the demand for heating. I may not have the data accurate, but for the past six hours, 45 minutes on, 15-30 minutes off, the lights go out, the heat turns off and I try not to get...
by Lisa Boesen | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog Posts, Cancer, Caregiving, Compassion, Empathy
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...
by Lisa Boesen | Nov 3, 2010 | Blog Posts, bullying, Civility, Compassion, Empathy, Kindness, Self-Compassion
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...
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