
How to Build Empathy and Avoid Burnout
A Slight Change of Plans
The Risks of Emotional Empathy
When you feel personal distress, your goal changes. It's not any longer that I just need to be there for this person. But if you feel compassion, your goal is to help the other person. And that goal cannot be satisfied by merely doing whatever it takes to feel better yourself. There are a lot of great practices that help with tuning our empathy away from personal distress and towards compassion.
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