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What Is Empathy and How Do You Cultivate It?

By Vivian Manning-Schaffel — 2018

Our brains may be wired to empathize more with people who look like us, but being more empathetic starts with just listening.

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78 - A Science-Backed Strategy for Making an Apology Effective

Whether you said something out of anger and hurt your partner’s feelings or you completely forgot about a deadline for work, your next move is critical. So on today’s Friday Fix, I share the exact things you should say to increase the chances that your apology will be accepted.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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97 – Learn Ways to Have a Better Conversation with Best-Selling Author Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee is a journalist, speaker, and co-host of Retro Report, a weekly series on PBS. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are how to hold difficult conversations with people, how to become better at making conversation, and how to deliver bad news effectively.

Podcast
The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

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Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan
2025
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Just Belonging: Finding the Courage to Interrupt Bias—Kori Carew—TEDxYouth@KC

A moment of racial tension presents a choice. Will we be silent about implicit and unconscious bias, or will we interrupt bias for ourselves and others? Justice, belonging, and community are at stake.

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2018
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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe—and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder—is about having the right conversations at the right time.

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Michelle Icard
2025
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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change.

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Dr. Laura Markham
2012
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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C. S. Lewis
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Words That Don't Belong to Everyone

Bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates answers an audience question about the power and ownership of words.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2017
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The Healing Power of Empathy: True Stories About Transforming Relationships

Empathy is an essential leadership skill and a cornerstone of good relationships—but it can be hard to access when it’s most needed. Luckily, empathy is also a learnable skill.

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Mary Goyer (editor)
2019
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The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with ourselves. There’s no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate.

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Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips
2020
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