You have experienced pain. If you’re old enough to read this – or even have it read to you – you have experienced pain. It doesn’t matter why […]
emotion / feminism / privilege
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The Difference Between Acknowledging and Triaging: Things the Men’s Right Movement (and many of the rest of us) Haven’t Learned
There is a difference between acknowledgement and triage. Acknowledging someone’s subjective pain or difficulty is completely different from triaging (assigning the priority needed) to fix that pain. Again, […]
emotion / health
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How Do You Rate Other’s Pain?
It is all too easy to look at someone else’s pain and say “I’ve been through worse.”
advice / emotion / relationships
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The Three Things That Make or Break Relationships
At a recent party1, the conversation turned to relationships. Capital-R relationships. Serious relationships. Romantic relationships. And I shared my biggest relationship tip of them all: Listen to the […]
emotion / psychology
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Using “I Feel” Correctly: A Challenge For December
I want you to try an experiment this month. We often say “I feel” to describe an action, a judgement, or what we imagine someone else is thinking. […]
emotion / society
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Empathic Bullying
It’s ironic that my girlfriend and I were talking a week ago about sociopaths. Because right now, I’m seeing supposedly neurotypical “empaths” causing more harm to our societal […]