by Gina Nelson | May 14, 2024 | Empathy
Bashing Without Context In the past week I witnessed some very interesting behavior between adults in a Facebook group who responded vehemently to something that was posted. A mother had posted her concern for a TED Talk that was shown in her child’s middle school...
by Gina Nelson | Feb 22, 2021 | Empathy, Validation
The mother daughter connection and bond is such a profound part of the young girl’s emotional development. Our mother is essentially our first love and our lifeline to security. We learn about ourselves and how to engage with the world through her. As...
by Gina Nelson | Jan 25, 2021 | Empathy
As a recovering perfectionist who used to thrive on the persona that I could do and handle just about anything while spinning many plates at the same time, I’m now humored by people when they portray themselves as “having it all together.” I have been a part of a...
by Gina Nelson | Aug 24, 2020 | Empathy
Empathy is one of those words that often gets confused with sympathy. Empathy is a term we use for the ability to understand other people’s feelings as if we were having them ourselves. Sympathy refers to the ability to take part in someone else’s feelings, mostly by...
