Can Teaching Self-Compassion Improve Teen Mental Health?
According to a new study, helping adolescents feel compassion for themselves can reduce suicidal ideation.
What Systemic Changes Could Make Health Care More Caring?
Why does your doctor seem so rushed and dismissive? That bedside manner may be the result of the health care system.
How Stories Shape Belonging
Learn how the stories we tell and hear shape our relationships, values, and sense of belonging.
How to Feel Better About Yourself
Self-compassion reduces our feelings of shame and self-doubt. We explore a practice to help quiet our inner critic with kindness.
Being Kind Is Good for Your Health
Doing good for others benefits our own minds and bodies, as well. We explore the science of kindness.
Can Loving Yourself and Others Protect Your Health?
Research suggests that seeing our spiritual connections to others could protect us from disease and promote public health.
Happiness Break: How to Be Your Own Best Friend
Show yourself real self-kindness in less than 10 minutes with this self-compassion break guided by psychologist Kristin Neff.
The Trouble With Self-Love
Self-love is hard to define and measure—and for some scholars, that’s a good reason to keep studying the concept.