Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

What is Self-Compassion made up of? Here are its Three Ingredients!

What is Self-Compassion?  With self-compassion, we give ourselves the same kindness and care we’d give to a good friend. Instead of judging and criticizing yourself for various failures, self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings. Using self-compassion, when I undergo frustrations, failures, or limitations I can choose to honor and […]

Ancient Greece Already Knew What We Know Today About Tackling Stress!

Before we dive into what Stoics had to say about stress, let us first understand a little about the school.  Stoicism was a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium, in Athens, in the early 3rd century BC. The Hellenistic school supported a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic […]

Have You Ever Hosted A ‘Cleaning Party’?

We usually believe that we are in the ‘right’ state to receive our friends when we’ve tidied up our sofas, hidden the packs of chips and chocolates, dusted the magazines and the books, fluffed up our cushions, hidden our wrecked diaries under the mattress, put together a three-course meal (a meal I’d never feed myself […]