Practice listening to yourself by softening and slowing down.

Sometimes the person we have the least empathy for is ourselves. Try this experiment. What brings out your feelings of empathy? Really ask yourself that question and feel what happens in your body. Now direct that feeling to a part of you that you judge. I'd love to hear what happens for you.

Be kind to silly birds.

Anger is part of empathy, it’s not antithetical to it. Anger arises when there is injustice to ourselves and to others—-It’s a force that says “you can’t f__ck with me.” Anger is a like a fierce mama protector.

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It’s a process

Empathy is a unifying force. Without it, it’s easy to wall ourselves off to the suffering of people, animals, the earth. A government lacking in empathic policies is dangerous and scary.