Compassion Matters

How to save a life

Lisa Firestone Ph.D.

How to Make the Holiday Special

Many of us are breaking traditions to have a safe holiday. How can we honor our feelings of sadness and still create a holiday that is meaningful?

How Your Attachment Pattern Influences Your Life

There is one area of research that offers a lot of insight, if not answers, to why we live our lives the way we do, and particularly, how we operate in relationships.

7 Practices to Keep Calm in the Face of Uncertainty

It’s okay to give yourself permission to seek a little bit of peace right now. Here are five ways to help you do it.

3 Ways to Tell You’re Afraid of Love

Many of us are resistant to recognizing our ambivalence around relationships. Here are three ways to identify if you're giving in to your fear of intimacy and pushing love away.

How to Go “All In” in Your Relationship

These two things can help you let down your guard and let someone in without feeling like you’re losing important aspects of who you are.

How to Cope With Missing People

Missing people for a prolonged period of time can increase stress, grief, and depression. Here, I share three practices to help you cope.

Finding Calm and Meaning in Turbulent Times

Three suggestions for mental wellness to help us power through the trials of our time.

Three Ways to Beat Your Insecurity

How building inner security, embracing self-compassion, and challenging our “critical inner voice” can help us overcome even our deepest insecurities.

Are You Feeling Insecure?

Looking at our past can help shed light on the origins of our negative self-concept. Knowing the source of our insecurities can help us challenge them from the ground up.

How to Unhook From Your Partner

When it comes to unhooking from a relationship, we can adopt certain psychological strategies to keep ourselves centered and on a healthy path.

Parents: Are You Losing Your Identity During Lockdown?

New challenges and responsibilities leave little time for parents to connect to the things that have meaning to them personally aside from their kids.

Saving Lives from Suicide During a Pandemic

Many are worried the pandemic could lead to an increase in suicides. Yet, new challenges can be met with a new way of talking about suicide and reaching out to those in crisis.

The Trauma of Racism

Countless studies have shown the adverse effects of racism.

Ways to Improve Your Relationship While Sheltering at Home

With the rise in new challenges between you and your partner comes an opportunity to learn long-term strategies to overcome obstacles and deepen your connection.

Three Things to Do for Your Mental Health Right Now

Mental health principles from experts that can help us meet this moment with resilience and self-compassion.

10 Ways to Fight Loneliness While Sheltering at Home

Here are 10 powerful and effective ways to feel more resilient in the face of loneliness.

Coping With Loneliness During a Pandemic

When we combine what we already know about loneliness with our new, isolating circumstances, how can we respond with resilience and silence to an inner voice making us feel worse?

Tips for Coping With the Stress of Current Affairs

Whatever state we're in right now, self-care is essential. There are powerful tools and practices to adopt that can help us take care of ourselves and one another.

3 Steps to Sustain a Loving Relationship

Maintaining a strong sense of self while being able to get emotionally close to a romantic partner is one of the most effective ways to keep love alive. Here's how to do it.

How to Get Back the Spark in Your Relationship

Every interaction we have with our partner is a possibility for lively connection. How do we break deadening habits and drop into this "plane of possibility?"

How to Improve Your Outlook

Why does our outlook change so quickly—and how can we connect to a healthier, more realistic way of seeing ourselves and the world around us?

Making Sense of Trauma

While trauma can seem like a complex and daunting problem with no quick fix, there are strategies to help you free yourself of much of the pain of your past.

The One New Year’s Resolution You Should Make This Year

By adopting this one practice, we'll be better able to keep any resolution we make this New Year.

The Problem With Shopping for Relationships Online

What you may find if you dig deeper into your online dating behavior is that what you think you’re looking for isn’t always what you’re actually seeking out.

The Hidden Powers of Gratitude

In honor of the thankful holidays ahead, here are four science-backed reasons to practice more gratitude—and three ways to do it.

How Do Adverse Childhood Events Impact Us?

Adverse childhood experiences have a lasting impact on our mental and physical health. But can positive childhood experiences help protect those who've been affected by trauma?

Why It’s Important to Break Routines

Seeking out and actively choosing novelty helps us feel more alive, engaged, and attuned to ourselves and others.

How to Stop Yourself From “Losing It” With Your Partner

Whenever we feel triggered in a particular way by our partner, we're likely to fall back into the same bad habit. But there is a way to break this cycle.

The One Proven Way to Feel Close to Your Partner Right Now

Whatever challenges a couple is facing, there is one skill anyone can work on to greatly improve a relationship; that skill is listening. Here are five ways to be better at it.

Why Millennials Are So Lonely

With social media as a potential facilitator, what are the other factors, psychological processes, and cognitive influences leading Millenials to feel lonelier?

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