Mar 5, 2019
Compassion literally means ‘to suffer with.’
WHAT? That’s powerful! Like seriously. This is not what I thought compassion meant. I had always been taught that it meant to try to fix another’s pain, attempt to heal their heartbreak, and or try to remove the source of the hurt.
At one point I even came to believe that compassion was to put up with hurtful behavior because the other person was hurting. But that isn’t it at all!
Compassion is to sit with someone in their pain. To make a conscious choice to sit in support and solidarity with a person as they process their heartache, work through their pain, and heal themselves.