Compassion Power

12/19/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202504/familiarity-vs-authenticity-whats-the-difference

Familiarity offers comfort, safety, and predictability at the price of stunting growth and rejecting beneficial change. Authenticity demands choice, honesty, and vulnerability.

12/17/2025

Hate can infect any person or group that includes tacit or overt assertions of superiority and victimhood, leading to paranoia and viewing other groups as threats. Information becomes propaganda and education mimics indoctrination.

12/14/2025

Attitudes of a Good Life: Appreciation, optimism, resilience, courage, purpose, compassion, and kindness.

12/12/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202412/how-chronic-resentment-underlies-rage

Rage is an extreme form of anger, with intense aggressive impulses. It’s caused by perceived violation of rights, status, or personal boundaries.

12/07/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202412/achieving-intimacy-in-an-angry-world

Resentment is rampant in our polarized world. It takes effort to keep it out of our relationships, where it is likely to destroy intimacy.

12/05/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202504/feeling-loved-vs-being-lovable

Feeling loved is about the way we’re treated by loved ones. Feeling lovable, i.e., worthy of love, comes from the ways we treat loved ones.

12/03/2025

The emotional reactivity that infects households is exploited by politicians and social activists for their own ends. They know not the harm they do; they only know that negative emotions are generally stronger motivators than positive emotions.

11/30/2025

Without a moral compass and a sense of basic humanity, we’ll almost certainly experience anxiety and depression, we’re likely to abuse substances and other people or try to reduce them to ideology. Basic humanity and moral character diminish in ideology.

11/28/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202507/beware-of-feeling-certain

It's extremely difficult to know something and extremely easy to think we know. Fear of ambiguity and uncertainty in our ambiguous and uncertain world traps us in close-mindedness.

11/26/2025

Our tendency these days to react to jerks like a jerk, blame when we feel blamed, devalue when we feel devalued, accuse when we feel accused, manipulate when we feel manipulated, offend when we feel offended, try to silence when we feel unheard, shame when we feel shame.

11/23/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202506/emotional-growth-the-body-matures-faster-than-emotions

Poor emotion regulation skills can lead us to believe that other people control our emotions.

11/21/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202501/assessing-recovery-from-damaged-relationships

Self-compassion and compassion for others are intertwined. Lacking the former, we burn out on the latter. Without the latter, self-compassion hardens into self-obsession.