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The Difference Between Empathy and Compassion: A Guide for Educators and Service Professionals
By Scarlett Lewis, Chief Movement Officer It’s important to Understand the difference between Empathy and Compassion. These two descriptive states are often used interchangeably, but they are distinct emotional responses that impact our mental and physical well-being...
Understanding the Difference Between Knowledge and Wisdom
By Scarlett Lewis, Chief Movement Officer The Path to Living Your Best Life Through the "Choose Love" Formula In the quest for a fulfilled and enlightened life, discerning the difference between knowledge and wisdom is crucial. Knowledge, an accumulation of facts and...
Spaulding Academy is First Choose Love Certified School
Press Release CHOOSE LOVE ANNOUNCES SPAULDING ACADEMY AS ITS FIRST CERTIFIED SCHOOL Choose Love Movement, a non-profit providing free CSED programs for educators, announced today Spaulding Academy shows a commitment to safety and wellbeing. Newtown, CT – Choose Love...
Choosing Love to Overcome Loneliness
By Scarlett Lewis, Chief Movement Officer In our modern world, loneliness has emerged as a silent epidemic. Recent studies reveal a startling trend: a significant portion of the population reports feeling lonely regularly, with the American Psychological Association...
Incorporating Stoic Wisdom into Daily Life: Aligning with the Choose Love Formula
The wisdom of the Stoics, a group of ancient philosophers, offers timeless guidance for leading a balanced and meaningful life. Central to their teachings is the cultivation of virtue, and learning and growing from life’s difficulties which can be beautifully aligned...
The Choose Love Formula: Healing Past Hurts with Courage, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Compassion-in-Action
by Scarlett Lewis, Chief Movement Officer Past hurts have a profound impact on our lives, often more so than happy memories. This is largely due to our brain's inherent survival mechanisms, which prioritize painful memories to prevent future harm. Research suggests...
My Transformative Experience with Monty Roberts, the Legendary “Horse Whisperer”
by Scarlett Lewis,Chief Movement Officer In the heart of Solvang, California lies Flag Is Up Farms, the birthplace of a revolutionary approach to horse training known as "Join-Up," pioneered by the legendary Monty Roberts. My journey to experience Monty’s techniques...
Bittersweet Feelings on Newtown Graduation
Parents Who Lost Kids in Sandy Hook Share 'Bittersweet' Feelings About Survivors' Graduation (Exclusive) Read Full Story. The surviving first graders of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre are now graduating high school. And while the milestone is a celebratory one,...
Meet the Classmates that Jesse Lewis Saved
People Magazine featured some of the survivors of Sandy Hook Elementary School. This is an excerpt. In recent weeks, PEOPLE spoke with 10 of the student survivors of the mass shooting who are either graduating on Wednesday or graduated last year. Some of these...
Newtown Graduates Remember
For the students who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as first graders in 2012, Wednesday marks the end of high school. More than 11 years after a gunman tore through their first-grade classrooms, the new graduates have grappled with what this...
