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We are now faced with a very big problem to solve: namely Climate Change. Compassion for Life discusses the emotion self-compassion which is defined as the urge to ease one’s own suffering. There are many ways that climate change is starting to negatively affect each of us. We, both as individuals, and collectively, are starting […]

The basic tenet of the book is that if two people are suffering from the same difficulty and start talking about it, a very interesting chain of events can possibly occur. When one person starts talking about their problem, they are being self-compassionate. The other person can strongly feel their suffering because they have the