Compassion Power

10/03/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202507/how-to-use-mistakes-and-failures-to-improve

Acting on the motivation of vulnerable emotions, rather than getting lost in what they feel, frees us to create more value and meaning in life.

10/01/2025

No one likes complaints, but in love, we must focus on the hidden plea embedded in them: “Please care about me; show that I matter to you.” There are relatively few neutral interactions in love. If we don’t put out kindness and respect, we’ll get back resentment and disrespect.

09/29/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202509/how-to-avoid-relationship-resignation-zones

What memories about your relationship would you most like to have a decade from now? What will you need to do to create the memories you would most like to have?

09/26/2025

The Transcendence of Kindness. When we realize the self-reward of behaving kindly, we transcend disappointment, rejection, failure, and attempts to manipulate or exploit.

09/24/2025

Focus less on opinions and more on deeper values. Relationship partners tend to agree about values like freedom, fairness, and compassion, even when they disagree about their opinions.

09/23/2025

Our behavior toward others, positive or negative, affects us in the same positive or negative way. Our hate makes us hateful, contempt makes us contemptuous, and compassion makes us humane. Yet we remain unaware of the effects our behavior toward others has on us.

09/21/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202507/how-to-love-well-for-a-long-time

How well we do in love and life depends on our conditioned responses to pain, distress, and discomfort—whether we blame, deny, and avoid or try to improve and grow.

09/17/2025

Amid growing political and ideological hatred, the afflicted who care about their health should assess how their hate is affecting their health and relationships, regardless of how justified they feel or how valid their arguments against those whom they hate may be.

09/14/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202508/different-ways-to-look-at-the-world

Masks of truth are deceptive or misleading statements intended to sound like facts, supported only by opinion or cherry-picked evidence, or directly contradicted by evidence.

09/12/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202509/the-benefits-of-relationship-premortems

A premortem is identifying and correcting what is likely to make the relationship fail. It’s a more accessible way for clients to apprehend the long-term effects of their behavior.

09/07/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202508/the-mental-health-of-haters

Hate has a way of generalizing. It grows from hating one person to hating others who remind you of that person and eventually to groups of people who remind you of that person.

09/05/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202508/why-arent-we-worse-partners-and-parents

When we consider why we’re not worse as individuals and as a people, we start to see how we can be better.