compassion

How is it that holding hands can communicate so much? Whether we are holding the hand of a lover, our children, friends or a person in need, we are sending messages and feeling a connectedness that is often difficult to describe. Recently I came across a woman standing on the […]

Holding Hands

3 Jan, 2022 in January 2022: Holding Hands / Radio Scripts tagged compassion / connection / hope by Kelley

In a gentle way, you can shake the world Mahatma Gandhi Have you noticed how people behave on trains? Most of the time, you can find people with headphones in and their attention faced downwards at something on their phones. When I go on trains, I behave the same way […]

The Kindness of Strangers

30 Dec, 2019 in December 2019: Kindness tagged compassion / look up / random acts of kindness by Jo-Anne Gordon

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. Is that your dream? To be kind. Not the dream of fame, fortune, significance, to be needed or capable. But the desire to live a life sharing beyond yourself – because that what kindness is and kindness does. It looks […]

Intentional acts of kindness

2 Dec, 2019 in December 2019: Kindness tagged compassion / kindness / self-compassion by Kelley

As I think about the year that has just passed, if I could change only one thing, it would be how connected I feel to those who are important to me. How about you? Do you feel connected in a world of so much isolation? One of the most significant […]

Choosing connection over fame and fortune

15 Nov, 2019 in November 2019: Fame and Fortune / Radio Scripts tagged compassion / connection / isolation by Amanda

A beautiful friend of mine this week was relaying to me her massive disappointment in herself because she felt she wasn’t good at doing a task that she had never done before, and will probably never have to do again. Her disappointment was palpable. She had such high expectations of […]

Self-Compassion | Self-Kindness

12 May, 2015 in 2015: nuture / Uncategorized tagged benevolence / compassion / failure / inadequate / kindness / kinwomen / nurture / self-compassion / self-nurture by Penny