Empathy; Sensitivity

I grew up in a very emotionally cold environment. My parents showed very little love or affection, and they couldn’t tolerate when either I or my siblings showed emotion. The result being that I have a hard time now dealing with my emotions...

"Why did he hit her over such a trivial thing as Kapla?" I thought to myself. "How do I teach him not to get angry, and to show his frustration in a different manner?"

Over fifty years ago, my parents were sent by the Rebbe to serve as his emissaries here, in Toronto, Canada. My mother had a hard time adjusting to her new role in the community. She spoke candidly with the Rebbe about the hurdles of adjusting to her new ...

"It is so hard to have a bully in my class," my son tells me. His expression is so sad; but I am even more saddened that at the young age of ten, he has already come to accept bullying as an unchangeable fact of life.

Is there ever a time to say, “Enough! No more Mr. Nice Guy for me!”?

She is my three-year-old in one of the ordinary and countless stumbles of her little every day life. But don't we all fall? And don't we yearn for an empathetic embrace, a hug or a word of encouragement?

There is little more painful than having to step up and watch the helplessness and anxiety of a surviving elderly parent...

My best friend has recently been diagnosed with cancer. My mother died of the very same type two years ago. I want to be there for her, but I am so scared to go through all the pain and suffering again...

A friend of mine just recently lost her child in a car accident, and I haven’t called because I am just worried about saying the wrong thing...

I'm in my first year of marriage and I’m having difficulties coping with my husband. I find that I am always criticizing him and I really don’t want to be but it is as if I can’t stop...