How To Love and Be Loved | Part 3: Developing Empathy for Yourself and Others #234

<p><strong style="text-align: center;">“</strong><strong style= "text-align: center;">Empathy is part of our human nature. It's the capacity to feel what other people are feeling. It's what separates animals from human beings. It's part of our nature; but it also has to be nurtured.”</strong> <strong style= "text-align: center;">–</strong> <strong style= "text-align: center;">Joe Ehrmann</strong></p> <p>If we don't address the wounds that we experience in life, we will go on to similarly wound others. In this episode, the third in a special series of six, Brian and Joe Ehrmann discuss why developing empathy for ourselves and others is a crucial step in helping us to understand and move forward from the hurts of the past. Topics discussed include why we often build rigid defense mechanisms and destructive life patterns to cover our wounds, how we can transform these patterns and become wounded healers and what role faith takes in this journey.</p> <p> </p> <p><a style= "background: #5e997b; color: #fff; padding: 2rem 3rem; border-radius: 2px; display: table; margin: 0 auto; font-size: 1.5rem;" href= "https://www.thebrianbuffinishow.com/transcript-how-to-love-and-be-loved-part-3-developing-empathy-for-yourself-and-others-234/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">READ FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>YOU WILL LEARN:</strong></p> <ul> <li>How a lack of empathy manifests in society.</li> <li>The differences between positive and negative empathy.</li> <li>Why journaling helps to make sense of the journey to healing.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://insideoutinitiative.org/">InSideOut Initiative</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <p>“If we don't enter into the woundedness of ourselves; if we don't identify and name our own life patterns; if we don't see the destructive behaviors that come out of that woundedness, we become the wounders.” – Joe Ehrmann</p> <p>“We take the peopl