As a collective society now is a high time to call upon more compassion towards ourselves and more so to each other.

Cultivating compassion goes beyond feeling empathy, concern or pity for others. It develops the strength to cope with suffering, to take compassionate action and have the stron...

I keep returning to a TED talk I watched early last year by Brene Brown, called The Power of Vulnerability. It is one of the most personally profound and insightful TED talks I have ever watched, and continues to reward me time and time again.

By way of context, Brene is a qualitative social scienc...