(Ep. 4) What Compassion Is And What It Is Not...

What if the compassion you keep waiting for from everyone else has to start with you?In this episode of Triggered & True, emotional health consultant Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise dig into what Brian calls the "X factor" of emotional health: compassion. But before they get to what it is, Laura clears away what it isn't — because most of us have been mistaking pity and sympathy for the real thing, and the difference changes everything.Laura draws the line clean: pity sees you as the worst thing that's happened to you, sympathy feels sorry for you, but compassion feels with you. She points to Jesus weeping at the tomb of Lazarus — grieving alongside people even though he knew he was about to raise him — as the picture of meeting someone right where they are instead of rushing to fix them. Then she and Brian turn the lens inward to the line she's known for: "Self-compassion begins with you and ends in a party" — why being with your own pain finally tenderizes your heart and lets everyone else back in.In this episode: 🔹 What compassion is NOT — how pity and sympathy quietly keep us from truly being with people 🔹 "I feel for you" vs. "I feel with you" — the difference that separates sympathy from genuine compassion 🔹 Why Jesus wept at Lazarus's tomb — and what it teaches about meeting people in their pain 🔹 The parenting trap of skipping past a child's feelings to "fix" them with logic — and what to do instead 🔹 "Self-compassion begins with you and ends in a party" — why being with your own pain opens the gate for others📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868🔗 Learn more: https://triggeredandtrue.comhttps://lauraduncan.com