Are you your own worst critic? It’s common to beat ourselves up for faults big and small. But according to psychologist Kristin Neff, that self-criticism comes at a price: It makes us anxious, ...

The Great Recession, and all of the challenges that have come with it, are obviously a great source of stress for most of us. We find ourselves in an era of over-stimulation, fierce competition and a ...

The news can be overwhelming and convince us that there is little good left in the world. But if you take it upon yourself to show compassion, even in little ways, you can make a tremendous impact in ...

Source: Adobe stock image by denisismagilov, licensed by Ravi Chandra Thanks to medical science, public health efforts, and vaccinations, we are tenuously and tentatively emerging from 15+ months of a ...

This is the edited transcript of a talk Greater Good's Jeremy Adam Smith gave to the nurses of UC Berkeley Health Services on surviving compassion fatigue. I'm going to warn you: This is a somewhat ...

Photo courtesy Chesapeake (VA) Fire Department. My great uncle was a jokester. He would always beat me in checkers, and when I asked to have a sip of water from the clear mason jar in the cup holder ...