They call me "Brother Teresa", and I'm on a mission to prove that kindness isn't weakness - it's the ultimate demonstration of strength. Subscribe for weekly practical insights on maintaining our humanity in an increasingly unkind world.
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The Radical Act of Rest
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I’m embarrassed to admit this, but for most of my adult life, I treated rest as a reward I had to earn rather than a need I had to meet.
The best way that I can describe it is that I treated rest the same...
Outsmarting Misinformation and Disinformation
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I know that an angel loses her wings once writers choose to quote themselves publicly, but hopefully the sacrifice will be worth it (apologies in advance to my angel friends 🙏🏾):
In my book Civi...
Escaping the People-Pleasing Trap
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Kindly allow me to start with this week’s article with a hot take 🔥:
Being kind and being a people-pleaser are not the same thing.
In fact, I’ll go as far as to say that they are almost complete opposites....
Perfect is the Enemy of Kind
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This might sound a little counterintuitive, but stick with me on this.
In this week’s article, I want to argue that perfectionism (aka, the bizarre cultural value that too many of us hold up as a sign o...
Every Workplace Has One: How to Handle Difficult Colleagues Like a Pro
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You already know this, but it won’t stop me from saying it anyway: every workplace has at least one difficult person.
Maybe some of these common examples will sound familiar to you.
It could be the perso...
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