Compassion Power

01/07/2026

To get our partners to show that they care about us we must show that we care about them. It’s not guaranteed, but it’s the only way.

01/04/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202512/outer-pride-inner-shame

Behavior often contradicts intentions. Intentions are more about values (the kind of person I want to be), while behavior is more about temporary comfort or power.

01/02/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202512/adversarial-love-relationships

Adversaries cannot repair their damaged relationships while locked in negative judgments and cynical characterizations of each other.

12/30/2025

https://youtu.be/cZ5toI_8nfE

They can feel like you're sleeping with the enemy.

12/28/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202512/hurtful-exchanges-in-love

When people live together, they develop implicit judgments to explain undesirable behavior of their partners. These become lenses through which they view each other.

12/21/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG_NcfsBHuc

Learn to access the most powerful part of your brain under stress.

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.