"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you’re someone who regularly tries to understand people’s emotions and help those in need, you might ...

This post was co-written by Lizabeth Roemer, Ph.D., and Josh Bartok. In an earlier blog, I offered some suggestions for cultivating self-compassion, even when we don’t feel it. I noted Dr. Shelly ...

Through learning these practices across the study, teens decreased in suicidal ideation from before to after taking MSC-T, ...

Here are four signs that you may be missing out on self-compassion, and what science says about how to change that.

To be truly compassionate toward others, do we first have to be compassionate toward ourselves? Some researchers have suggested that these two types of compassion are linked, although this might not ...

Compassion training activates brain regions linked to resilience and well-being, contrasting with empathy's association with ...

Some people find it easy to be kind, until they have to turn that compassion inward. Here are the signs you might be lacking in self-compassion. It’s not at all an uncommon experience to be deeply ...

Compassion-focused therapy helps people be kinder to themselves and others. CFT works by combining compassion training with mindfulness and other techniques. Compassion-focused therapy can help with ...

Helping others succeed by acting compassionately toward them can benefit you both mentally and physically, a UA professor told a Tucson audience at a lecture on happiness Wednesday night. “The best ...

If you’re someone who regularly tries to understand people’s emotions and help those in need, you might consider yourself to be an empathetic and compassionate person. But, although these words are ...