“I think it hurts a little bit too much,” Mia (Emma Stone) says to Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) in “La La Land” while discussing the perils of trying to make it in the industry. If you’re an aspiring ...

Hopefully, you are among those fortunate enough to have avoided health issues involved with the coronavirus. But this pandemic has affected every single one of us in more ways than one. New family ...

We have all encountered someone who constantly bemoans the difficulties of their life. Everyone needs to vent, but some people take it to an Olympic level. It can be exhausting to listen to all that ...

Granting yourself grace and compassion can be a pathway to recovery. Source: Tim Samuel/Pexels When I came home from the psychiatric ward on multiple occasions of psychosis, I just wanted to crawl in ...

Compassion, being with someone’s suffering and then desiring to alleviate it. It’s different from pity. Compassion is when you identify with someone else’s pain, you acknowledge it as if it were your ...

I was pretty angry for many of these last few days. Anger is an easy but supremely unhelpful emotion. I was angry that I failed my editors by not meeting my deadline (I didn’t publish a column last ...

Whether an economic downturn has taken a toll on your bank account, or you’re dealing with a chronic health issue that interferes with your everyday life, hardship is inevitable. But the way you deal ...

Be honest: Are you playing the victim after your divorce or breakup? Are thoughts of self-pity filling your mind, keeping you from healing and moving on? Your person has left you. You are alone and ...

ONE of the established traditions of American popular songs is that of being sorry for yourself. The lyric school of self-pity began in the early years of the nineteenth century, and it is still going ...

Editor’s note: This column was published originally on March 6, 2021. Compassion, being with someone’s suffering and then desiring to alleviate it. It’s different from pity. Compassion is when you ...