Willamette Valley NVC

Tag: compassion

  • Should We Be Concerned About Toxic Empathy?

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    Mathew Hudson
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    My Concerns In the last couple of years, it appears that an apprehension about “toxic empathy” has blossomed, raising my concern that one problematic form of empathy is being over-scrutinized without clear differentiation, possibly causing a vital form of empathy to be condemned along with possibly problematic form. The discussions seem to stem from a…

  • A Significant Piece of Mind

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    Tim Buckley
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    I knew the guy was gonna take a swing, and I had prepared for it…which is the whole point of this post. Prepare, meaning practice. He was the field director for US Senate candidate Mike Erickson, a Republican and MAGA devotee. It was a few weeks before the 2024 national election. He followed me outside…

  • Love in a Time of Despair

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    Tim Buckley
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    I read a thoughtful, evocative essay by Maria Popova today, her weekly blog post called The Marginalian There are a couple of lines in the essay that grabbed me. Here’s one:  “The transmutation of despair into love is what we call meaning.” She was echoing the sentiment of Oliver Sachs who wrote on the subject…