Empathy
But the very fact that you don't know is all the more reason to imagine. Because right at the root of empathy is imagination. They rise or fall together. If you can't imagine what someone is going through, you can't empathise with them. But
Depression
A tribute to the man who gave me a soundtrack for a difficult time. When I heard, yesterday, of Chester Bennington’s passing, I felt a hollowness within. Linkin Park’s music (especially their debut Hybrid Theory album) helped define a major inflection point in my life and growth. I’
Pain and Recovery
And 2 reasons it’s so common There’s a question I often get from people I’m working with that breaks my heart. The question is this: “How do I get back to who I used to be?” It’s a question I understand, being as human as they
Empathy
A meditation on “dark” subjects I often think about what others consider dark topics. Pain. Suffering. Death. Evil. And I’m not just interested in them for their own sake — which is why I don’t consider my interest morbid (as some have described it), but rather for the questions
Pain and Recovery
So in my last post, "How our wounds make us human," I explained what a wound is. I'll recap the definition: An emotional wound is the "breakage" in your image of yourself or of life, that's caused by a negative experience. In
Pain and Recovery
No, I'm not about to romanticise pain. Wounds hurt, and nobody likes them, including me. But they do make us human, and I want to explain how in this post. You know the saying: "Everyone's got a little bit of madness"? I don'
Communication
Or, Thoughts on rethinking rape advocacy to rapists Most people think of rape as a VERY BAD THING. Most people also believe that only VERY BAD PEOPLE do VERY BAD THINGS. The trouble is, most people don’t think of themselves as VERY BAD PEOPLE. Ergo, the following thinking: “If
Pain and Recovery
I was about 14 when two of my closest friends lost their fathers and another one lost a brother, all within 12 months. Their bereavement was my first personal experience with death. For some reason I can’t now remember (the books I read probably), I knew enough then to
Healthcare
How the way people with long term medical conditions answer a simple question can point to how well they will do over time.u