Check-in: Sunday 21, March 2021 - Trauma Support Community

Hello Community ! The topic I bring today is "Compassion here and now."

We see Compassion in practice all the time, all around this Community, each time you answer a post by a fellow member, giving advice, support, and love.

Compassion is reaching out to someone who suffers, and sharing their pain, with the purpose of alleviating it. You consider the other person as a fellow human being, just like yourself, with the strengths and vulnerabilities that are the mark of our human condition.

Compassion is a feeling, that is expressed through compassionate behaviors, like reaching out to a fellow member of the Community. It can be also practiced as an aspiration, for people we can’t communicate with, a valuable practice in itself.

It has to be stressed that Compassion involves considering the other person as an equal. A fellow human being, as valuable and vulnerable as ourselves.

Feeling sorry for someone we consider inferior (“Poor guy!”) is not compassion but pity.

As said, this Community is a space of Compassion

Compassion is its main pillar, that what sustains and keeps this Community alive.

Here Members empathize and take the initiative to help each other. Compassion and proactivity are this Community's sources of vitality and strength. This is what makes it so valuable for all of us, and for people that come to us for help.

How practice Compassion in this Community ?

- By browsing regularly our forums and answering threads and posts by fellow members. Add your thoughts even if there are already answers to the main post.

- By checking the “Newest” and “Needs Reply” threads, to see if there is some in which we can add our answer. (To see the “Newest” and “Needs reply” threads go HERE and Sort by those criteria.)

- By posting informative threads about topics that might be helpful to other fellow members. Sharing knowledge and things we learned along our healing path.

Questions

- How do you feel today ?

- Write a message to the Members of this Community that might be needing your support the most right now.

I look forward to your comments, and wish you all the best !

Marcelo.

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