Increasingly, our society has shifted us away from direct human connection.  We find ourselves interacting through short snippets of text, disconnected from the faces and the bodies of the people delivering these messages.  Certainly there are ways to triage this technological disconnect.  We can FaceTime, or send photos.  We can try to imagine the speaker Read more about Practical Activities to Cultivate Empathy[…]

It is hard to know how to describe the shifts that have been taking place in my life.  For several months, I found myself trying desperately to arrange social activities, to fill my time with friends, with the somewhat conscious motive that I was needing validation of my desirability in the wake of a break-up.