On a recent episode of The Secret Lives of Men, Dr. Chris Blazina spoke with Dr. Kristin Neff about her research and her recent book, Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind. Here is the publishers ad-copy for the book: …..

BY MEEHAN CRISTThe Royal Society for the Arts recently released a brilliant little animation based on a lecture by Dr. Brené Brown in which she differentiates between empathy and sympathy. In this animation, a sad fox is at the bottom of a deep,…

There is an income gap in America, but just as important is a compassion gap. Plenty of successful people see a picture of a needy child and their first impulse is not to help but to reproach.To break cycles of poverty, we have the tools to improve hig…

Even if it turns out that some yawns can be explained through purely physiological means, yawning is also contagious for humans and other species. If someone watches someone else yawning, they’ll be likely to yawn as well. That means that there i…